Nicole Bernard Dawes, the founder of Late July and Nixie, got her start in business selling $1 cookies at local delis—the lessons she learned from the $500 summer hustle led to multimillion-dollar success.
“My first foray into this universe was when I was 12. My best friend and I had a cookie company, and we had customers” Dawes tells Fortune. “I actually sold to local delis in my town, which is kind of wild that was even allowed.”
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Source: Fortune | Published: 2026-03-15T09:01:00Z
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