Business Savvy Teen Inspired Again
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A Northbrook family’s summer cottage in Michigan did more than provide Ryan Hultman with a place to relax this summer. The 15-year-old credits the retreat with inspiring him to start a second business.
“My dad’s been going up there his whole life and my grandpa has been going up there since he was a little boy,” Hultman said of the Michigan getaway.
It wasn’t until a few summers ago that a family trip to the cottage sparked Hultman’s inner entrepreneur.
Looking at a framed poem in the house, the Glenbrook North High School sophomore said the script made it look like the poem was titled "Yo North."
“From that point forward, it became an inside joke and has turned into a tradition to read it every time we are ‘Yo North,’” he said.
As the tradition grew, Hultman began thinking of making T-shirts with a ‘Yo North!’ emblem imprinted on them. Last Christmas, he made it a reality by ordering the printed T-shirts for family members. That’s when he felt itch to start a business.