{"id":4401,"date":"2011-09-01T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T18:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:10:29","slug":"reaping-rewards-of-her-business-acumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"Reaping rewards of her business acumen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Beth Fitzgerald<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em>Ed\u2019s note: This article originally ran in the May 20, 2011, issue of <\/em>NJBIZ<em>. It is reprinted here with permission. <\/em><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Kaitlynn Zolnay <\/strong>was a third-grader when she started baking dog biscuits and selling them to local pet stores. Unlike most third-graders\u2019 startups, Bandit\u2019s Biscuits is still in business, and Zolnay also runs Orchidaceous, a decorative art business she launched in high school.<\/p>\n<p>The junior was only 9 when she became an entrepreneur, \u201cand to this day, I\u2019m not sure why I liked it so much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4402\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4402\" title=\"kaitlynn-zolnay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kaitlynn-zolnay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaitlynn Zolnay &#39;13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to talk to people, work with people, and do something to help other people, and I enjoy it. You sit down and work through a problem; it\u2019s always changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zolnay said while she was growing up, her parents encouraged her to \u201cdo something you are passionate about,\u201d and she discovered early on that running a business provided that emotional reward.<\/p>\n<p>Zolnay, a business major, hasn\u2019t decided what path she\u2019ll take after graduation. \u201cI may decide to work full-time on both businesses, or I may change my mind by the time I graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She sells her artwork through house parties, and had a gallery show in Lambertville, New Jersey. Her parents have two ovens in their Stockton home to bake dog biscuits while their daughter is at school. When she\u2019s home, though, she jumps back in, baking and delivering her biscuits to pet stores and filling online orders.<\/p>\n<p>Running her own business \u201callows you to do something that you enjoy and that is yours,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you wake up in the morning, you know that you can grow and change however you want. I\u2019ll probably stick with my own business, because of the excitement and it\u2019s what I love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Zolnay said she already has reaped some of the tangible rewards of owning a successful enterprise\u2014after years of saving and investing her profits, last year she bought her first car, a Volvo C70 convertible.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, she\u2019s had her eye on that model long before she had a driver\u2019s license\u2014actually, ever since was in the third grade.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaitlynn Zolnay \u201913 started her first business, Bandit\u2019s Biscuits, in the third grade, and her second, Orchidaceous, while in high school. 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