Yeo and Ebuen, both 36-year-olds who work from home about three days a week planing two new baby products this summer.

Seventeen months after receiving their first shipment of 8,000 guavamitts, the business has already turned a profit, though "we haven't gotten paid yet," Yeo said.
They thought those 8,000 mitts would last a year, she said. "Now we sell that in two months."

The duo met as freshmen at Cleveland High School in Southeast Portland. Yeo worked in international business and design for Nike, Hewlett-Packard and Ziba. Ebuen stayed in Oregon and found her way to Intel, where she worked in project management and studied business.

Once Ebuen came up with the idea for guavamitts, the pair designed and tested dozens of prototypes, finally settling on Chinese-made bamboo and organic cottons and Portland-made prints.

The mitts are manufactured in China, then shipped from Shanghai to distributor warehouses and Yeo's and Ebuen's homes in Beaverton, where they package and ship them.
As moms, "we don't want to create another frivolous thing" that new parents receive at baby showers and never use, Yeo said. "We are the consumers."