13 year-old Business Mogul

So you think it is hard to make a million dollars? If you asked 13-year old Maddie Bradshaw how hard it is she would probably just laugh. It's kids stuff.

Maddie Bradshaw had an idea to decorate he Jr. High locker. She took a plain bottlecap, sketched a black and white abstract portrait of Albert Einstein inside it, and put a magnet on the back. Simple enough eh? Her friends all wanted some too so she started making them for all of them. She decided that making them into jewelry would be a great idea too.

Then one day she decided to see if a local toy store wa sinterested in sellign the caps. They took 50, and 2 hours later they were sold out. They called her and asked if they could sell them at their other stores throughout Texas and the middle school mogul was born.

Now, Bradshaw's designs can be found in hundreds of stores throughout the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas. Snap Caps can be worn on necklaces, in hairpins, or as bracelets. "All my designs are interchangeable," says Bradshaw, whose company now sells 50,000 necklaces and caps every month.

Just a great story, and it all came from a tiny little idea to decorate her own locker. Jsut so simple and does something that eludes most of us giving us dark eye circles as we stay awake allnight searching for our Snap Cap explosion. Love stories like this.