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3 Business Lessons I Learned 16 Years Ago…I was 10

I use them daily to this day

5 min readAug 30, 2023

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What business lessons can you even learn when you’re 10 years old? Well, you’d be surprised! I started selling socks. Not just any socks though!

“These socks are going to make us billions” — People at Nike Probably

When I was 10 years old I learned about a trend in my school. Kids started wearing cool socks. They were called Nike Elites. They are very comfortable compression socks with a stripe design up the back. I figured if it was a trend in my school it may be popular elsewhere.

These socks blew up in my school and it made me think “what could I do to make money from this trend?” I just wanted to have unique socks that no one else had. There were a few options.

  1. Different places sold different Nike Elites. For example, if you went to…

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Christian Helms
Christian Helms

Written by Christian Helms

I build funnel systems for businesses. Founder of Growth Labs Marketing

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