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Are You Too Old To Start Being An Entrepreneur?

Startup Professionals Musings

The best way to learn is a “hands-on” approach like creating a simple business to sell lemonade or deliver newspapers. Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing. Start a summer business. Bring the family together.

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Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police

InfoChachkie

As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. Fundamentally, being an entrepreneur is a constant exercise of turning lemons into lemonade. Parcours Ninjas Vs. The Austin Police.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Similar to the entrepreneurial attributes described in The Lemonade Principle , a newspaper route not only built character, it prepared children for a lifetime of success. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Record Exit Value for VC-Backed Startups Could Fuel Investment

Xconomy

More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital. That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

InfoChachkie

Repeatedly organize yard sales in which you sold your broken toys, books you wrote and illustrated, along with overly sugared lemonade and burnt cookies. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. For instance, when you were growing up, did you partake in any of the following activities?

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

My economics teacher, Mr. Thorn, ran computer simulations of lemonade stands in which each student had to build a local business and decide: how much supplies to order, how much to sell the lemonade for, how to respond to competition and how to change plans based on the weather. And honestly others that completely let me down.

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