Love Your Melon Inc. is a for-profit company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in October 2012 by Zach Quinn, son of Cafe Latte owners Pete and Linda Quinn, and Brian Keller with startup money,
Toms is an American for-profit company based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas, the company designs and markets shoes as well as eyew
Love Your Melon
…received a class project to start a business that made a profit by the end of the semester. Inspired by Blake Mycoskie's book about the founding of Toms Shoes and the concept of buy-one-product-donate-one-product, Quinn and Keller began their business by setting up a "Love Your Melon Beanie Stand" outside a…