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...
Taking the "21" from 33rd and Walnut is a Tuesday pleasure unlike any other. It's a physical journey from the familiar corners of University City to West Philadelphia, whose simple beauties on 48th street I'm coming to know. There's a family I always see of three bright boys and a patient mother that board the bus as I descend from it. There's a group of young girls in crisp uniforms and color hair clips sing songs...
Last week I went into the supermarket and went down an aisle filled with different types of granola bars. There were different color boxes and different shapes. I came upon this one box that stood out from the rest . It stood out to me because it was simple and I really liked how you could see the bars in the box. I got the idea that my co-workers and I should come up with a...
Last Sunday, we went on a road trip to pick up some honey from our dear friend Walt. Honey is an important ingredient in our bars. At Rebel Ventures we use local organic ingredients and walt is just the right person. There in Kennett Square PA is where walt lives with his bee's. Walt is genuine person and is confident about his more than 5,000 bee's. During our time here a member of Rebel, Corey,...
Kayla, sampling at Mariposa Market."Since starting work with reBel in October, everyday has served as an opportunity to learn. I take full advantage of all of those opportunities, not just because of the experience I gain now, but also because gaining knowledge in business and learning to sustain business relationships, are imperative for me to reach my future career goals." Monday is usually ReBels busiest days due to production and the number of orders we have...
Guess what everybody? ReBel Ventures crafted a new product called ReBel seeds. We invented this product because we know seeds are quite popular in our community. Our first flavor is called Honey-Spice. We used an organic blend of spices called Berbere. Here's a link of you want to learn more about our delicious new flavor Our new ReBel seeds are also combined with local honey, from our farmer in Kennett Square. Honey-spice is totally organic...
