Cream Of The Young Crop
When Tanner Highfill was growing up, he would fake being sick so he could stay home from school and watch the opening of the stock market.
Since age 10, Megan Jansen yearned for independence and financial freedom.
As an ambitious 12-year-old, Scott Mitchell needed a way to fund his hobby of restoring cars so he started a small business selling candy at school.
The mindset of these three young entrepreneurs is a part of a growing trend kids around the nation have picked up.
More than 65 percent of 14- to 19-year-olds are interested in starting a business, compared to about half of the general public, according to the National Association of the Self-Employed.
And programs such as the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs competition through the Young Americans Center for Financial Education reward 6- to 21-year-olds for their business start-up accomplishments.
Like Highfill, Jansen and Mitchell years ago, many children desire to be their own bosses early on. Gallup studies show that 27 percent of high school students take entrepreneurial business courses and seven in 10 students want to start their own businesses.
Photo by Sherri Barber/The Coloradoan.
robyn collins on October 1st, 2007 7:14 pm
so glad you’re pointing this out. This is exactly why our magazine, Millionaire Blueprints, is launching a teen business magazine in January, Millionaire Blueprints Teen. To tell how kids like this get it done, and give everyone the information they need to start businesses of their own.
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