Teen makes semifinals in business competition
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- October
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South Salem teen Laura Côté, one of just 30 young businesspeople competing in a national entrepreneurship contest, made it to top 10 semifinals but wasn’t among the top 3 winners. Côté, 18, took her idea for a child-friendly haircutting business to the second annual Smith Barney/NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge event in New York City on Wednesday. Côté travels to her clients’ homes to cut their children’s hair in a familiar setting. She started Happy Cutz after taking cosmetology at the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Yorktown. The winner of the competition, who will receive $10,000 to expand her business or pay for higher education, was a young woman named Warda Ali from San Jose, Calif. She presented a business plan for Sure Shot Cricket Gear, an online business specializing in selling cricket equipment.
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