Did you know that 3 Nigerian girls appeared on the under 25 list of top 25 entrepreneurs including Ubong Attah, 23yrs, Deborah and Jessica Umunnabuike.
Ubong Attah
Ubong Attah describes herself as a serial entrepreneur. She ran a tutoring business in high school, taught herself Web design in college, then started a Web design firm her senior year called Studio10Fourteen, which she says is profitable and continues to operate. Ubong recently sold another business, an online jewelry shop, for around $55,000. She is in Dallas.
She was recently diagnosed with systemic lupus (also called erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease which, among other discomforts, forces the patient to avoid exposure to the sun), but rather than allow this to deter her, she turned her attention to starting a home-based business. Her new company, Prolete Medical Billing, makes use of her health-information management degree from Saint Louis University in St. Louis and her experience doing administrative work for her mother’s two home health agencies. Ubong who graduated just last year expects Prolete to have revenues of around $4 million in 2008. Her degree is in Health Information Management.
"I am a new college graduate aspiring to do big things and make things happen. I hope to start my own concierge service, web design company, and photography studio".
Deborah
Umunnabuike and Jessica Umunnabuike
"I’m looking to learn how to create a more socially responsible business," says Deborah Umunnabuike, a political science major at the University of Chicago and co-founder of Avant Gaudy, an online vintage clothing shop she started with her sister, Jessica, an undergraduate at Hofstra University, in the summer of 2005. They are based in Chicago.The daughters of Nigerian immigrants started the three-employee business because they were passionate about clothes and saw a growing demand among their peers for vintage clothing. And they soon realized that there was a growing demand abroad as well, specifically in parts of Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia, based on analyzing Web traffic to their site, almost 26,000 visitors from more than 30 countries. The sisters recruited Hong Kong native Vincent Choi to bring a global perspective to the business and better reach shoppers in Asia.
Deborah says running the business has made her want to become a serial entrepreneur, but until she graduates in 2009, she will continue to run it conservatively. She is also involved with the Forte Foundation, a group dedicated to creating young women business leaders, and is interested in continuing community work in the spirit of Avant Gaudy’s DIY/Smashup Chicago, a daylong networking and trade-show event she organized in 2006 for craftspeople and entrepreneurs
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