On a recent afternoon, two young entrepreneurs were brainstorming names for the online dress shop they were starting, playing as usual off each other's strengths.
"Let's call it Enticing," Elona Myftaraj, 17, said to her business partner, Newon Dennis, 16. Both are juniors at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy (SLA).
"That sounds really nice," Dennis said. "I hadn't thought of a name."
Dennis has been designing the dresses; Myftaraj has been sewing them.
"I can picture dresses, but can't draw, and Newon can draw, but can't make the dresses," Myftaraj said, explaining how the two came to collaborate in an unusual program called StartupCorps.
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Author: Mohana Ravindranath
