There you go, a prepubescent pickle mogul and loan shark :) 4. If other students needed a loan when we were out and about I could give them a few bucks and most of them paid me back the very next day with interest. It always allowed me to have plenty of spending money on me when we went on field trips. The startup costs were small because I’d get a 6 pack of Mountain Dew for a couple dollars and then sell each one for $1 a piece or the price of a lunch ticket ($1.75 at the time) then use the profits from that to fund buying candy, buying my own lunch and selling the pickle slices for $0.50 each to other students. ( ?)įrom 1999-2005 (13-19) I was making $10-$20 a day easily selling snacks to my friends over our lunch break. The easiest business that I ran as a kid was selling Mountain Dew, Smarties candy, and pickle slices from my cheeseburgers. Reed Floren from Business Success Systems was a businessman from an early age. She’s got a Udemy course on how you can help get your kids into the industry and avoid all the predatory scams. ActingĪja McClanahan’s daughters earn up to $1000 per hour for television and voiceover acting. He sold that pair for $100, and is on track to net $5000 in this business by the time he graduates high school.
Starting with a $50 purchase of a pair of Air Jordan 3s, he’s multiplied his money by buying and selling shoes locally and in different “sneakerhead” Facebook groups.
Flipping Sneakersįifteen year old Ned is a sneaker mogul. Don’s been on a decade-long mission to empower students and teachers to apply innovation and entrepreneurship in the classroom. To find out, I sat down with Don Wettrick, an award-winning middle school and high school teacher and the CEO and co-founder of StartEdUp.
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How to Raise Innovative and Entrepreneurial KidsĬan innovation be taught? (And if you can teach it to kids, can you teach it to grownups?) Young Founder has printable business plans, checklists, marketing materials, and more for several of the business ideas below.
Selling Outside Sporting Events and Concertsīefore we dive in, I found a cool resource for parents encouraging young entrepreneurs.