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Three Really Creative Teen Entrepreneur Ideas For Starting a Business
Have you ever wanted to run your own business, but you’re not sure how to start?
Welcome fellow entrepreneur! Here’s a 5-step process as well as 3 ideas to kickstart your very own business:
Step 1) Discovering and Specifying Value Proposition
Step 2) Reflecting Personally and Building Passion
Step 3) Vetting Preliminary Feedback (Market Research)
Step 4) Researching Models and Meeting Influencers
Step 5) Replanning Organization While Implementing
See this non-profit student organization manual for a detailed example, methods, and templates for our process.1. Start a student organization with your friends!
Businesses are first and foremost about exchanging value with people. Consider the following questions:
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Who do you currently know?
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What do your friends enjoy?
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Where do you all spend most of your time?
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When do you all experience a need that you can’t fulfill?
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Why are you all unable to fulfill this need?
As you answer all of these questions over and over again, you’ll begin to discover many possible business ideas. Chances are that you and your friends spend most of your time in school, and you all have some kind of common interest. If that’s true, then start a student organisation around that interest!Most schools support and encourage student clubs—your school will likely give you all the help you’ll need :)Many years ago, my friends and I started an Ultimate Frisbee Club. It was admittedly unsuccessful, but we learned.
As Entrepreneur Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
2. Find your passion and go from there!
Is there anything that gets you incredibly excited; something that really gets your nerd on? Once you can pin down your exact passion, you’ll find it much easier to inspire others because you’re genuine.
3. Get experience abroad and learn from experts!
High school travel abroad is certainly not common, but you’ll find that many teens like you made it happen. Your school might have an office you can reach out to for either starting a club or traveling abroad.
After one teen, Oliver Oglesby, decided to travel to the Dominican Republic with Global Leadership Adventures’ “Building a Sustainable World” Program in Summer 2013, his passion for sustainability was ignited. Oliver then applied all the experience and perspective he gained to later co-found Project Ascensión. A summer business camp or program for high school students can be a great starting point for success.
“Every person can make a difference in their own way. You just have to open your eyes to realize how!”
–Oliver Oglesby
What kind difference do you want to make? We’d enjoy hearing your pitch and helping you along!
Contributed by Nick Fochtman
Guatemala in Photos
Photo taken from one of our day to trips to the hot springs! We were gladly hiking to the waterfall and 120 degree hot springs!
Photo taken mid-Spanish class that we had class in the Quezaltenango city. We were practicing our Spanish by asking the locals questions about Guatemala 🙂
A photo capturing the excitement of recess at the school where we were doing our work in Quezaltenango.
In this photo we are learning the art of making traditional Guatemalan tortillas, a very tasty snack!
All smiles while touring Xela, Guatemala in our GLA group! Missing so many great people.
Contributed by Beate Kaz
GLA Alumnus
Tanzania in Photos
1) Our first day at Himo School is a day that I’ll never forget. Meeting all of the kids for the first time was so special- seeing their curious, smiling faces right off the bat made me ever so ready to start my service project there.
2) Mama Simba taught me lessons of strength and integrity that I couldn’t have learned from anyone else. I hope for the absolute best for her and will always keep her wise words dear to my heart.
3) I absolutely love the rawness of this picture and how it captures the man’s expression so well. It’s also a funny reminder of the bridge that we all ended up venturing on, even though it was apparently the one thing we weren’t allowed to go on.
4) This was such a fun and enjoyable performance to be a part of. This picture was taken a few minutes after Will had the pleasure of dancing with that one girl- I love the memories that come back with pictures like these.
5) It’s not every day that you’re able to get out of your car, while on a safari, and take a jumping picture like this. Both safari days were absolutelybreathtaking, and I’m very glad that I was able to spend them with the two different cars of people.
7) Even though I was close to getting hypothermia (oops), the hike around the base of Mount Kilimanjaro far exceeded my expectations. Everywhere I looked, an overwhelming amount of beauty surrounded me. There’s no better way I could’ve asked to end our phenomenal journey in Tanzania.
by Jennah L.
GLA Alumnus
Unfamiliar Air
June 30th
We stepped off of Flight DL1388 to unfamiliar Costa Rican air. The green mountains in the distance were heavenly compared to the polluted San Francisco streets we had just left. As I walked through the terminal, my heart was filled with excitement, but also fear and anxiousness. Would I survive the next 21 days? Are the other kids going to like me?
Questions flooded my mind, but as I exited the doors of the airport, I saw a group of smiling faces holding a GLA sign waiting for me. Despite jet lag and lack of food, these strangers were ecstatic to meet me! I can’t wait to see what the next three weeks will hold. We wandered the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital, picking up some last minute supplies to bring back to our future home. At lunch we discussed how we felt like a family walking the streets and we’d barely been together for five hours! I then realized that these people were hoping I would let them in with open arms, when the whole time I was worried that they wouldn’t let me in. I think I’m going to have a great time here.
July 3rd
I opened up my tent to the fresh, Costa Rican air and walked through the Home Base, waking up all of the other hardworking volunteers because I was assigned “Leader of the Day.” We devoured some delicious omelets, which were well needed due to the array of activities we had lined up for the day ahead. We headed down to the organic coffee farm and fertilized the trees with our own, homemade, 100% natural fertilizer, made of manure and coffee skins. After four hours of sweating, we took a short hike to the waterfall where we got our well-deserved swim. We soaked up the sun and then ate some lunch, while everyone rushed to finish the homework our Spanish teachers had assigned us in class the day before.
Class went on as planned, and then we had some free time before dinner. Once everyone was stuffed from our amazing meal, our mentors helped us work off dinner by teaching us how to do the native dances of Costa Rica and many other Hispanic countries, such as the merengue and salsa. After a few shorts lessons, we got the hang of it and danced the night away until it was time for bed.
July 7th
I woke up today refreshed as usual (we sleep great because the beds are so comfortable) and ready for the day. We ate a delicious casado breakfast, which is the traditional rice and beans with plantains. Then we headed to Tamí to build ditches to collect rainwater. I thought this was inspiring because we were working on the Home Base where we live and where volunteers for many years will be staying. Everyday we are leaving our imprint here in Providencia, also literally because we got to put our handprints in the cement ditches and write our initials. I love being here because I feel like I’m reinventing myself. Life at home is so repetitive and here it’s like I’m actually being useful and making a difference.
When I get back to California I want/need to be more productive. There is just so much to be done. We had dinner and then our leader, Jonathan, gave us a lesson on community development. I have learned more here than my entire year of school and this makes me gain more and more respect for my mentors everyday. During class we enjoyed the second most favored drink in Costa Rica called Agua Dulce and watched a video about tourism and its negative affect on the environment. This trip is changing my mind every second of the day.
Contributed by Amanda Dwinell
GLA Alumnus
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