By Sarah Engler
Launching your own business is quite an accomplishment — especially if it happens before you finish kindergarten. “It all began because I was tired of taking the bus,” says Cory Nieves, now 10. In 2009, Nieves and his mother had just moved from the Bronx to New Jersey for a better school district. “I wanted to buy my mom a car,” he says, “so I started selling hot chocolate out of a friend’s restaurant.” Nieves soon added cookies — though making them wasn’t easy. “They were either too hard or too soft,” says his mom, Lisa. “Oatmeal raisin took almost a year to perfect!”
