My name is Samuel C. Harrell; I am the founder and president / CEO of ueSolutions. My very first entrepreneurial experience occurred at the age of fifteen, when I was a Boy Scott. At that time, my Boy Scott troop (Troop 531) was selected to participate in the 1964 Boy Scott World Jamboree, which was being held at Valley Forge Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is where General George Washington and the Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the American Revolutionary War against the British. 

As I recall, each troop was to setup a booth that would offer something representing their countries to other visitors of the Jamboree. I came up with the idea of selling small bottles of water that were labeled “From the Shores of Philadelphia.”  The bottles were really nothing more than small empty aspirin bottles filled with water that I collected from the Schuylkill River, the "shores of Philadelphia." For more than a year prior to the Jamboree, the members of my church donated their empty aspirin bottles, with the caps in tact.  I really don’t remember how much we sold those bottles for – a dollar maybe, but I do remember selling them all. Why, for sometime after the Jamboree I received a number of requests for more of those bottles from all over the world.  I didn't’t realize it at the time, but that experience and the feeling that I had when satisfying the desires of others laid the foundation for all the other business pursuits that followed.  I was hooked!