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Article: Stitching a Niche
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- Baylor Business Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Baylor University, Hankamer School of Business Spring 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Self-confidence and drive. Innovative thinking and practical knowledge. Discipline and passion.
These are the attributes of CHIA STEWART and KASPER BOON, two entrepreneurs who have turned their talent and ideas into marketable goods and services and are enjoying success on an international scale.
While her friends were riding bikes after school and debating the virtues of Rainbow Brite over Strawberry Shortcake, eight year-old Chia Wollschlager was often at her mother's busy El Paso sewing factory performing odd jobs - cutting threads, inspecting finished products and tagging fabrics.
"Anything that she needed doing, I would do," says Chia, who admits to being an avid pupil. "My mother is a ...