Conversations With Teen Entrepreneurs

Conversations with Teen Entrepreneurs profiles three successful businesses created by teenagers. These companies were created during the booming 90's, have weathered the Internet bubble burst and are still succeeding today. The book is a fascinating read to see how teenagers are able to overcome the age barrier and succeed in a field normally reserved for adults. Each entrepreneur has his own unique story about balancing work and school, convincing customers and potential employees to trust them, and even, in the midst of it all, having a successful social life. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to successfully start their own business. Advice and tips on overcoming obstacles, developing marketing strategies, and learning to improve sales are just some of the tips and techniques readers will take away with them. Every entrepreneur faces nearly insurmountable challenges. However, these entrepreneurs faced twice as many challenges--and they succeeded. By learning the secrets to their success, you will be given the tools to help surpass any challenge. And if not, you'll be amazed by the stories these teens have to say. Honest.

Do you have a passion you want to turn into pay? Or maybe you are looking for a way to make some extra cash in high school? Start It Up shows teens how to turn their hobbies and talents into full-fledged businesses. Inside you’ll find comprehensive and fun information on how to • know what’s the best business for you, • pull together a company, and • sell your product and let the world know about it! Whether your business is cake baking, dog walking, website design, or house painting, Start It Up offers the A-Z on getting it going and making it successful. Also featured are quotes from other successful teen entrepreneurs who turned their dreams into dollars.

#1 BOOK TO LEARN HOW TO LAUNCH A BUSINESS AS A TEENAGER Shirley Martin Wang introduces a no-bulls*it step-by-step guide for teenagers to dominate the business industry before they turn 18, from landing your ultimate dream job to defying stereotypes about teenage entrepreneurs... In this book, you’ll learn about: - starting a business before age 18 - why social media influencers succeed - working legally as a teenager - business ADVICE from 7 teenage entrepreneurs — YouTubers, CEOs, and Content Creators included - how to make yourself the #1 choice for a job - what is “youth professionalism” EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE NOW! with Gen Z Entrepreneurs Jade Darmawangsa and Brennan Agranoff!

FINALIST: Goody Business Book Awards - Entrepreneur: Young Entrepreneur If you have a great start-up idea and know how to think like an entrepreneur, but are still at college or university, then this book will show you how to run your business without having to drop out. Research shows that Generation Z are the most entrepreneurial generation yet. If you don't want to wait until you graduate before launching the next big thing, then this book - written by successful young entrepreneurs Swish Goswami and Quinn Underwood - is for you. Packed with practical and realistic advice The Young Entrepreneur really cuts through the noise surrounding business innovation and makes a clear case for starting your own company while you're young. Featuring inspiring examples and invaluable resources to give you the tools you need, this book is your one-stop guide to jump-start your entrepreneurial journey.

YOU CANT DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND DROP INTO A GOOD JOB: Explains why government makes teens go to school and pays for it Includes motivating letters and messages of encouragement from President Obama, celebrities, 4th graders, millionaire teen entrepreneurs, philanthropists, business leaders, drop-outs who returned to graduate and other concerned accomplished Americans Mentors from afar, but fi nger-tip close on dealing with diffi cult teachers, internet high schools, landing jobs, writing resumes & cover letters, starting a teen business, dealing with bullies, winning over stress and depression, dating, sexual temptation, chemical substance abuse, and much more. 1st lady Michelle Obama wrote David saying: the President and I share your hopes and optimism for what lies ahead at this important moment in history, we encourage you to continue to engage yourself in fi nding ways to strengthen our country by serving the youth of your community. (August, 2010) Teens and parents who read this book will never have to say: If only I had known!

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments. Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult.