Nick Freidman

Nick Freidman is President and Co-Founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk, an innovative and award winning junk removal company. In its first three years, the company grew to over 2MM in sales with franchises in twenty-four different locations, including Tampa, Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

College Hunks Hauling Junk has received 6 marketing awards from the American Marketing Association and the Property Management Association for their unique brand, corporate website, and low-cost marketing strategies. College Hunks has also been highlighted on CBS, NBC, FOX News, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune Small Business, and Oprah.com.

Both Nick and his business partner were recently named one of INC Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30. In addition, he was named 2009 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, and College Hunks Hauling Junk was recently named #156 on the INC 500 List of Fastest Growing US Companies for 2009. Nick has appeared as a guest on National Television shows such as CNBC's The BIG Idea with Donny Deutsche, Fox Business News and ABC's reality based show about entrepreneurs entitled Shark Tank. He has been interviewed by Entrepreneur and Fortune Magazine as well as the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on franchising, branding, and young entrepreneurship.

More about Nick

Biggest obstacle overcome...

Overcoming the anxiety and stress of wanting instant gratification.

Biggest business mistake...

Becoming overconfident and expanding too quickly without doing due diligence on the return on investment

Biggest vice...

Women

Biggest advice for others...

You must have a vision and you must be passionate about your vision, otherwise you won't be willing to risk it all to realize your dream. Also, you can't ride two bicycles at the same time so focus on one business at a time.

What I do for fun...

Travel

Most embarrassing business moment...

Showing up to a black tie gala in a Tshirt and jeans