Emily Elizabeth Duong started selling skate dresses as a teenager and enjoys being her own boss
So when she was still in high school, she started her first business: a skate dress line.
“My way” started with Duong, who often goes by just Emily Elizabeth, collecting design inspirations on a Pinterest-type board and asking her mom for help finding a manufacturer. Her parents had immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam, and she ended up working with a manufacturer there. She said she used money saved from gifts and summer jobs to get started.
Duong grew up in a town of less than 10,000 people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was a competitive figure skater and tennis player, and despite her small-town roots, felt like a “big city person.” She dreamed of moving to New York, but from Pennsylvania, went to college in Southern California with a partial scholarship and her parents paying most of the costs.
By the end of 2020, Duong wanted to go full force into entrepreneurship. She gave herself an April deadline to leave her job and told her closest friends that if she didn’t, she would owe them each $500.
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