I open my eyes early Tuesday morning to the loud sound of my alarm clock. It’s 8:30 am. I instantly thought to myself -- Time for Rebel Ventures. I got to the Netter Center for Community Partnerships around 10:50 am, where Jarrett and I were scheduled to have a meeting. My mind was racing with questions. “Will the other students he hired be there?” “What are we going to do in this meeting?” “I wonder what the...
Written by Mykel and Tre'Cia On Tuesday, my colleagues and I drove from West Philly to Media, PA to Wawa headquarters. We had plans to gain information on how to run a successful food business. On the van ride there we discussed our agenda, broke down roles and rehearsed our presentation for Wawa. When we arrived at the headquarters we signed in, received our name tags and waited to meet Jerry and Leslie, category managers at Wawa....
Rebel Ventures is a social enterprise run by high school students. We seek out partnerships to help us master skills in our departments. Our partners have expertise in a variety fields that are connected to the Rebel Ventures business. Working with partners is beneficial to Rebel because it's always good to learn from new people and because they have the experience to help us when we get stuck. Our partners come from all over our...
Rebel Ventures is a business and a social enterprise. All social enterprises are businesses, but not all businesses are social enterprises. Let's start simple. What is a business? A business sells a product to a customer. Usually this is something the customer wants or needs, and solves some type of problem the customer has. What are some of your favorite businesses? How about your favorite products? What problems do they solve? Rebel Ventures sells healthy snacks like Rebel Bars...
This week I did a sampling of Rebel Bars and Rebel seeds at Mariposa Food Coop, one of our first and most loyal customers. We just started selling our Rebel Seeds so, I was there to let everyone who came by know about us. While interacting something that really stood out was a guy who worked at a high school and wanted to know if we were hiring so maybe some students from his school...