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David Zamarin is the Young Serial Entrepreneur that first founded Lick Your Sole and then started up Detrapel to go on to Shark Tank success when both Mark Cuban the Broadcast.com Maverick’s Billionaire and Lori Greiner, QVC Queen Invested in this business start-up in early 2018.

David Zamarin is the young entrepreneur founder of Detrapel a liquid repellent spray that he developed at the age of 16.

David is a serial business owner selling his first startup called Lick Your Sole when he was just 15. As a result of his success.

David is friends with a past guest on the show Jeremiah Joseph De Leon another successful young serial entrepreneur.

I then read more about him through different media outlets like Philadelphia Business Journal, CBS Philly, Fox 29 Philly and more. Therefore, I decided to feature him on my Young Serial Entrepreneur startup series.  Most noteworthy was my interview with  Scott Pecoriello Founder of Know Snow App and Meterology Optics.

The Detrapel formula protects your fabrics and materials from getting wet and dirty and helps them appear as they did when you first purchased the item.  David tells us that the spray is hydrophobic which uses nanotechnology to repel almost anything off of almost every surface from water to mud.  The company is once again selling their bottles for retail to consumers.  The product is sold to several industrial business clients and although we didn’t get into any great detail I’m sure consumers could get wholesale prices if they purchased a large enough quantity. DetraPel is 100% eco-friendly, 100% biodegradable, Water-based, Portable, and in the past provided consumers a 1-year money- back guarantee. It is also Non-flammable, 100% non-toxic, Non-corrosive, UV resistant, Rustproof, and Ice- proof.

Detrapel works well in a stain-free world no more spilling something on your shirt and you can’t get the stain out – no more ruined shirts.

Lick Your Sole rapidly grew with establishing several distribution channels and hit a peak in revenue after partnering with the different sports teams of Temple, Penn, Drexel and other Universities in Philadelphia. Zamarin made a risky decision often faced by many entrepreneurs, whether to continue or not. Zamarin eventually decided to sell the company to someone who was interested in taking over.

Lick Your Sole was a professional shoe detailing service that specialized in cleaning, conditioning and repairing every type of footwear in an original way.
David’s objective at that time was to deliver quality service while providing customer satisfaction. His business acumen was to combine this service with cleaning technology

The opportunity was in restoring the first fresh look and feel of those out of the box shoes you first purchased.

At 15 he got into a youth entrepreneurship program called Startup Corps.  Zamarin was a star student of the Philly Startup Corps program that helps high school students start their own ventures and create something real.  At some point, he realized that his business was scalable.

DetraPel came out of this ah-ha moment and yet another new opportunity. What is so exciting about the Detrapel story is that David will be appearing on Shark Tank in early 2018 and I will have him come back on the show to tell the rest of this amazing story.

What You’ll Learn

—Lessons of a young entrepreneur.

—-Programs for high school entrepreneurship.

—The best business advice he has received

— Philosophy on crowdfunding.

—With so many cleaning and drying products on the market, how has Detrapel broken into the market?

—- How he learned to balance business, fun and a long list of extracurricular activities.

—– The key to working with mentors and a board of advisory group.
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How to balance business, fun and a long list of extracurricular activities.  The key to working with mentors and an outside advisory group.

Resources 

Schoolyard Ventures
Hatchpad

books
One thing that contributes most to his success?

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A fun fact about him?
worse advice being given to young entrepreneurs today is?
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Two years from what will he be doing?