Alibaba.com<\/a> for the opportunity.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n ![]()
Founder – Harrison trademarked his brand with the help of his business teacher and became a limited company at the end of the year (Image: SWNS\/Harrison Nott)\n<\/p>\n
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\n But it wasn\u2019t all smooth sailing.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking in July, Harrison revealed he had started his first proper business at age eight, followed by several failing start-ups which lost money.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cI’ve seen my dad running a business my whole life and I’ve always wanted to run my own, and have the financial control to do things for myself.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI’ve made a lot of mistakes but now I’ve got the formula and the idea to scale the business up.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI want to see how far I can get with CoolTowel. I think I can only go so far with it and long term I’d like to build up a personal brand and become well-known for being an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After launching CoolTowel in 2023 on TikTok and Shopify, 15-year-old Harrison Nott from Maldon juggled studying for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-300923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}