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Friends Omar Soliman and Nick Friedman turned a summer junk hauling business into an international franchise. Here's how two "college hunks" built a culture that grew their brand. It started out like many summer gigs: Childhood friends Omar Soliman and Nick Friedman were sitting around a table, figuring out how to make money while they were home from college. The duo and their friends had landed on the idea of hauling people's trash in a beat-up cargo van borrowed from Soliman's mother. "We were drinking beer and throwing out ridiculous, funny names, and my mom said, 'You're like college hunks who haul junk,'" Soliman recalled. "We thought, 'Hey, that's a cool name.'" Little did they know that this was the beginning of an international franchise, now known as College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving. With a brand name and a solid concept, the rag-tag group of college students posted flyers around the suburbs of Washington, D.C. It didn't take long for the calls to start coming in, and the friends spent the next few months waking up at sunrise and driving the van around to haul garbage for local residents. They had earned more than $8,000. For the first time in their young lives, Soliman and Friedman had found their passion — not moving garbage, but being entrepreneurs. Noteworthy: Exponential Organizations Book Millionaire Matchmaker Episode with Omar and Nick Sapiens Book & Sequel Where To Find Nick & Omar: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CollegeHunks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collegehunks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CollegeHunksHaulingJunk/ Website: https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com/