You've heard the saying, It's never too late. We say, It's never too early! Even children can be introduced to basic business principles and the rewards of entrepreneurship. Our goal with Kidpreneurs is to outline some basic tools and strategies kids can use to gain some valuable experience in starting, managing, and growing a successful business venture. Through easy-to-understand basic principles and a creative approach, we outline some key techniques that will have a powerful and positive impact on your child's ability to understand entrepreneurship. Using kid-friendly design and illustration, we break down some of the major points of entrepreneurship, so your child can have fun as he or she learns. Also, your child will enhance his or her decision-making skills by trying out simple businesses as he or she grows up. Tomorrow's future starts today. Share Kidpreneurs with your children and help plant the seeds for a stronger future.
Adam Toren and Matthew Toren are the founders of YoungEntrepreneur.com, which has quickly become one of the largest social networking forums for young entrepreneurs in the world. These brothers have many teaching and research interests including marketing, business development, entrepreneurial emergence, entrepreneurial strategy management, business growth techniques, innovation, and new venture creation. One of their specialties is improving profitability of under-performing businesses with a unique bottom-line program. Matthew & Adam provide instruction in management concepts and finance to emerging and distressed small businesses covering all phases of operations. Enthusiasts for enterprise, their ideas are not only based on research, but also on years of hands-on experience.
What a wonderfully exciting and innovative book! The illustrations are wonder. Kidpreneurs is very easy to follow. defines what an entrepreneur is, shows the steps to get started as one, gives your child business examples (dog walking, yard work.) It is a very interactive read. Your child will have forms to fill out and quizzes to take to make sure they understood what they read. Your children will be motivated to start their own businesses! They will feel more creative and know that their dreams are in reach. What an empowering book for our children to read!
*A free copy of this book was given to me for a honest review. No other compensation was provided for this review.
Kidpreneurs may seem like interesting books for your children. However, I'm here to tell you some facts about the founders. Founders, "Adam" come to me to renew websites. They agree for a 5 page website. However, later on, they want to get more pages and jobs done for free with mobbing. The more responsive I am with them, the more they want. Beware, Kidpreneurs may try to somehow teach kids about bullying and unfair ways of doing business as well. Be honest and fair first!!
My son and I read this book in one sitting and loved it!
My son loved the short chapters, the quizzes, and the activities. The sample business plans also gave him some great ideas for what he can do - especially the lemonade stand.
As an entrepreneur, I fond myself saying "Yes!" to a lot of the lessons - like managing your money, managing your time, not taking rejection personally, learning from your mistakes, and not giving up if an idea fails. I feel like those are things that seem like common sense, but that are also easy to NOT practice. It also gave me a great idea regarding how I can give back through my business.
All in all, this was a great book and I look forward to going back through it with my son to actually figure out a great business idea, create a business plan, and get started. We will also work our way through their online academy on Udemy.
I read this because I want to make a tv show about science and mom said I could make one if i had a business plan.this is a great book for kids who want to make a business. --Sagan, age 5