entrepreneurship

Offers advice on how to become a teenage entrepreneur, covering business design, funding, advertising, and other topics; features interviews with seventeen successful teenage entrepreneurs; and includes worksheets, a list of resources, and suggestions for starting a business.

Offers fifty ideas on ways for children to earn money, including baking, caring for children and/or pets, washing cars, caddying, collecting recyclables, and shoveling snow. Each entry gives information on equipment, preparation, and how to do the job.

Contains an overview of entrepreneurship and descriptions of twenty-one fast-growing careers in the field including information on each about requirements, work environment, earnings, and outlook.

Presents biographical and career sketches of ten successful entrepreneurs, taking the reader through a typical day at work, with advice on career planning and hints for landing a job.

This title shares ten valuable secrets that can help increase teens' income over time. While not quick or easy, principles such as providing outstanding service, learning more in order to earn more, networking, and building one's "brand" will help teens obtain both financial and personal rewards from their work.

Ben Casnocha discovered he was entrepreneur at age 12 and hasn't slowed down since. In this remarkably instructive book, Ben dissects the entrepreneurship "gene," explaining that everyone has inherited it if they have an idea to make the world a better place. In Casnocha's case, he found a better way for city governments to communicate with constituents on the Web. Six years later, Comcate has dozens of municipal clients, a growing staff, and a record of excellence. This book is the story of his start-up, but also a conversation with his mentors, clients and fellow entrepreneurs about how to make a business idea workand how to have the time of your life trying. From Pat Lencioni to Marc Benioff of salesforce.com, Ben has won over the best and brightest of the business worldnow it's your turn!.

Over the past three years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000 residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America. Even as the recent financial downturn threatens to cripple small businesses and privately owned farms, a stunning number of food-based businesses have grown in the region. The mostly young entrepreneurs have created a network of community support; they meet regularly to share advice, equipment, and business plans, and to loan each other capital. Hardwick is fast becoming a model for other communities to replicate its success.--From publisher description.

Sam Wyly reflects on the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies that have helped him become one of the wealthiest people in the world and explains how others can find financial freedom.