Not many entrepreneurs are told to do their homework before they devote time to their business.
But that's the rule laid down by the parents of Leanna Archer, who at the age of 11 owns Leanna's Inc., a Central Islip mail-order and on-line business that sells hair-care products.
Leanna is the persistent entrepreneur, according to her dad, Gregory. Since the age of eight she had bugged her parents about selling a hair-care dressing her mother, Maritza, mixes up using such ingredients as almond and avocado oils. Leanna felt her long tresses had benefited from her great grandmother's recipe for hair oil and conditioners, and that others might, too.
