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Hey Mom…I’m Back | youth unemployment

February 24, 2011

Imagine the youth unemployment rate so high that after paying or borrowing tens of thousands of dollars on a college education, your kid ends up back home because he can’t find a job and afford an independent lifestyle. Welcome Boomerang Generation. There were three definite rules in our household while I was growing up – [...]

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Why Every Kid Should Learn About Entrepreneurship | youth entrepreneurship

February 22, 2011

A myth behind youth entrepreneurship implies that your child will be ensnared in hours of tasks, taking away from his limited childhood. After all, he has time to learn the 8 to 5 role when he reaches adulthood and is forced to make his own way. Lessons in Youth Entrepreneurship From a Lemonade Stand [...]

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It’s a Matter of Numbers: Entrepreneurs and Job Creation

February 18, 2011

When it comes to participating in the workforce, we either work for entrepreneurs, are entrepreneurs or we work for the government. There’s not much to it. We’re either employers or employees. Entrepreneurs Although entrepreneurs make up just 11.5 percent of the population, (“Entrepreneurs: Beating the Odds“) their ideas and abilities to take risks to [...]

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Entrepreneurship: Beating the Odds

February 10, 2011

There’s no other country in the world that praises entrepreneurship like the US. Our history books are full of inventors like Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison who not only took risks to bring new innovations to the market, but carried out the belief that free enterprise was at the cornerstone of the American [...]

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Hey Obama, You’re Missing an Extra “E” in STEM

January 27, 2011

If you listened to President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday, you probably caught a glimpse of his vague plans to improve our educational system by focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects to produce a more skilled workforce able to compete globally. Will STEM Education Will Produce a Competitive Workforce? [...]

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8 Things I’ve Learned About Being an Entrepreneur

January 24, 2011

Without a doubt, there are plenty of lessons that I’ve learned about entrepreneurship over the past 20 years. Some resonate more than others and some seem more pertinent now than they did yesterday. Here’s a rundown of some of my most important ones: Partnerships and Boulder Pushers If it seems as though you’re pushing a [...]

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Entrepreneurship: An Elective Course or a Life Skill Requirement?

January 14, 2011

I never really understood math beyond the basics, especially when letters got mixed in with numbers. I wanted to, really I did, but I just couldn’t seem to make it all click. It was around 7th grade that my mathematical talents began to wane and unfortunately for me, my parents also lacked the skills to [...]

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Biz in a Boxx Spotlight: Jeremiah Onciu

January 4, 2011

In the debate over whether entrepreneurs are made or born, Jeremiah Onciu would be placed in the born category. The entrepreneurial bug bit him at a very young age and now, at age 16, Jeremiah has started his latest venture, GoogaBiz. Like most entrepreneurs, discovering new opportunities and taking advantage of them is the essence [...]

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Winter Science Camp

December 13, 2010

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Youth Entrepreneurship: What’s the Big Deal?

December 6, 2010

The benefits of teaching youth entrepreneurship go well beyond the obvious practice of taking a product and selling it in the marketplace. There’s not only a plethora is life skills learned through the practice of entrepreneurship, but for some kids, especially at-risk kids, entrepreneurship can show them that their furture can be different. Life Skills [...]

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