Cynthia Wylie

  • Cynthia Wylie is a hard-driving entrepreneur with a successful track record. She was raised on a farm which taught her the habit of hard work from an early age. Her recent startup, Bloomers Island has become the standard bearer brand for children to live healthier lives and make healthier food choices as well as inspire in them a love of gardening and nature. She has received two patents on her seed starters, SeedPops which have been sold in over 5,000 stores in North America including Target, Nordstrom and Costco Canada. The first five books of her nine-book series have been published with Rodale Kids, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Previous companies where she was a partner/co-founder include X-Large Clothing, the seminal streetwear brand, and Maui Toys, the activity toy company recently sold to Jakks Pacific. In addition to starting and selling companies, Ms. Wylie does business consulting with The Project Consultant. She focuses on raising money, turnaround actions, and strategic and tactical planning in operations for small manufacturers. She is a founding member of the Startup Founds Group in Silicon Beach, a group designed to process issues and problems that all startups inevitably face. She started her career in Investment Banking writing private placement memorandums and developed an expertise in helping companies to raise money, including over $1 million in seed capital for her latest company. Her B.S. degree is in agriculture from Pennsylvania State University and she has an M.A. in economics from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She is the part-owner of her family farm in Western Pennsylvania. She raised four children and loves writing, reading, learning foreign languages, and growing plants and companies.

 



21 Stories by Cynthia Wylie

Change Your Algorithms. Solve Your Problems.

Sometimes your challenges, be they losing money in a particular department or trying to improve your hiring processes can be easily solved by creating...
May 11, 2023 3 min read 129

The Wisdom of Your Crowd

Best Use: Increase the accuracy of any forecast. In 1906, Francis Galton discovered what we now call, the wisdom of crowds. At a farmers’...
April 20, 2023 3 min read 169

A Concept from Quantum Physics Can Improve Your Operations

Best Use: Improving efficiency of processes If you are stumbling down a dark alley and see a guy about to kill another guy, and...
March 16, 2023 4 min read 162

The Problem You Think You Have is Often Not Your Problem

What are the biggest challenges you are facing in your business right now? I just posted this question on a small business group I’m a...
March 13, 2023 4 min read 110

The Power of “21 Reasons” to Accomplish Your Goals

He was running out of time. Our client’s warehouse was in a rustbelt town, he needed to sell it and no one was rushing...
March 2, 2023 3 min read 183

The Problem You Think You Have is Often Not Your Problem

What are the biggest challenges you are facing in your business right now? I just posted this question on a small business group that I’m...
February 24, 2023 4 min read 238

Lack of Working Capital Can Bankrupt Your Startup

… even if you are making a profit. Working Capital is the lifeblood for most businesses. It can make the difference between surviving and...
August 10, 2022 4 min read 156

Sorry, Greedy Rich Guys

We Need to Raise Your Taxes in Order to Tackle Inflation Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest and second richest men, respectively,...
July 7, 2022 3 min read 224

Let’s Regulate the Over 10,000 Active Cryptocurrencies

As a rule, I’m loath to suggest more regulations on anything. But in this case, I really think it would make the currencies more...
July 4, 2022 6 min read 178

So, What Business Are You Really In?

What is McDonald’s business? Some might say, the fast food business, or more broadly, the restaurant business. But what many people don’t realize is...
May 12, 2022 4 min read 231

Why Your Cost of Goods Sold is So Very Important

Many companies don’t really understand what a cost of goods sold is and don’t calculate it correctly. I’m going to tell you why that’s...
March 25, 2022 4 min read 421

Fiscal Policy v. Monetary Policy

If you want to understand taxes, inflation, spending and interest rates, you should know the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy and the...
March 4, 2022 4 min read 251
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