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Defining a niche market

A niche market is a specific group of people within a larger market. These people have specific needs and often need specialist companies to fulfil their needs. When you think of a niche market what springs to mind? Teen Entrepreneur Foundation is a good example of a niche market (if we say so oursleves). We .. read more

Exploring your teen’s entrepreneurial potential

There is no doubt that young people have the potential to make a huge success in business at a young age these days. Unlike previous generations who finally found financial success in their fifties after a lifetime of work, the current generation of young entrepreneurs are rewriting the rules when it comes to how wealth .. read more

Teen businesses – a variety of options exist

If you are the loving parent of a teenager today, you’ve probably heard about the young people out there who are earning more every year than the GDP of a small country, after having invented some kind of game, website or other wonderful invention that involves a computer. While the internet and technology in general .. read more

Discipline and success – how to encourage these attributes in a teen entrepreneur

Peruse the business section of any bookshop and you’ll notice the sheer number of books dealing with the same theme: keys to success. From New York to London to Tokyo and seemingly everywhere in between, there are business experts publishing their views on what makes a successful manager, CEO or entrepreneur. None of us has .. read more

Supporting an entrepreneurial teen

Those of us who have teenagers know just how much they love to dream. If they aren’t diving head-first into some new fad or craze, then they are rebelling against it! Sometimes teenage antics can test the patience of any parent, but if your teenage son or daughter has an entrepreneurial streak he or she .. read more

Crowdsourcing – the latest way to finance your business!

Here’s an awesome update on a trend that is sweeping the world, especially for teen entrepreneurs! If you have never heard of the word ‘crowdsourcing’ you’re not the only one, but it won’t be like that for long. Around the world, people are using this cool new method of raising money to finance small businesses. .. read more

Selling for teens

So you’re all fired up about the awesome new business idea you have? Fantastic! Once you decide what your business is all about and you are ready to start, you’ll need to take the excitement you feel about your ideas and make your customers feel excited too – that’s how you’ll make some serious cash. .. read more

Selling your skills – a great start in the business world!

Selling your skills? How is that a business?? If those are the thoughts in your head right now, you are normal! It looks weird when you read it on the screen, but the idea of’ selling your skills’ is the way a lot of small businesses make their money, and we’re about to show you .. read more

Big business ideas

Sometimes we have great ideas that nobody else understands, or at least it seems that way! As a teen entrepreneur you could have loads of ideas every day, and that’s how it should be. In case you think that you’re the only one who has big ideas and even bigger dreams, here are some examples .. read more

Planning: how to turn that dream into cash!

Teen entrepreneurs always start out with a big idea, maybe even a dream. Whether they started with an idea for a computer game, a website, a carwash or a snack bar there is one thing that every successful teen entrepreneur had – a plan! What’s so special about planning anyway? When you’re dreaming of your .. read more