Virtual Entrepreneur

Businesses For A Typical Teenage Entrepreneur

June 17th, 2008 | Author: MrMoney

Teenage Entrepreneur:
Typical teenage entrepreneurs are not hard to come by. Indeed you may have inadvertently been one in your life already. In fact when you were between 13 and 18 there’s a 99% chance that you tried to make money in one form or another. I’ll give a run-down of the typical types of businesses that teenage moguls start up to make their first bit of cash, so maybe you can replicate the successes of the many!

1. Lemonade Stall – Its true, everyone loves lemonade, especially in the summer when you’ve been on a run or out at a stressful day at work, a nice cool lemonade increases the blood sugar and puts you in a feel-good mood! So why don’t you try setting up a little stall outside your house. Buy a few lemons, get some sugar from the cupboard and water – and they’re your main ingredients. You could sell each cup for $0.50 or 50p for Brits.

2. Lawn-mowing – Again another highly popular business for young people with a love for nature (or for money for that matter). Here in the UK in the summer, the grass grows like crazy and I myself have to cut the grass once per fortnight. If you have 14 clients, then you could stagger each client out over the fortnight and create yourself a recurring business – where you’re getting paid a small amount each day. You may need your own lawnmower though (a petrol one would be best too).

3. Gaming Cards – When you were a young teenager, I bet you played with gaming cards at some point of your life. For me, just as I was approaching 12/13, Pokemon cards were in fashion. Some of the holographic cards could be found in normal packs and sold online for as much as £10 a card! Or try selling them to your schoolmates for a small “discounted” fee. Keep your gaming cards in plastic wallets so as not to lose any and to make the most of your collection visually.

More ideas here.

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