Youth Entrepreneurship, inspirational Speaking, Video Production, Skateboarding, Environmentally Friendly Business Practices

LEARNING, Defining a Niche Market; Viral Marketing, Bearing Designs and Development, Graphic Design, Skateboard restorations, skate culture

Daniel Uribe - I'm an 18 year old Colombian immigrant with a passion for skateboarding. After 5 years of hardcore skateboarding, I realized that all I was going to accomplish by jumping down stairs, was get 5000 more ankle injuries and maybe impress a couple of high school girls. Consequently, instead of seeking sponsorship I decided to get involved with entrepreneurship and became an NFTE alum. They taught me what it takes to build a business plan, provided me with the challenge of presentin …view more it, and most importantly, facilitated the expansion of my professional network! "YOUR NETWORK IS TOUR NET-WORTH" I developed a business plan for selling high performance Ceramic Ball bearings, and After receiving 3rd place at the NFTE nationals, I met my lovely mentor Shonika Proctor. She introduced me to the idea of Renegade CEOs, and now I'm determined to see this come to life. As far as skateboarding goes, I still love doing it but i've calmed down a lot. My ankle twisting, shin splitting, ball crushing, asphalt sliding days are over. Or are they? ###

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