I GET awed whenever I meet successful entrepreneurs who tell me they’ve been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug since they were young.
Ailene Co of fashion store U.R.U. was selling stationery and mechanical pencils when she was in grades 4 to 6. When she was in high school, she sold clips, headbands, hair spray, and key chains.
Ana Amigo-Antonio of Chocolate Clothing Co. recalls selling as early as five years old. “My parents were in interior design and our house would always be remodeled to reflect new trends. So there were always carpenters in the house. I would sell them candy and soft drinks,” says Ana.
We’ve all had classmates in grade school who sold cornick, candies and chocolates.
When I was maybe six or seven, I put up a small table near our gate and sold candies. I lasted only a day since hardly anyone bought anything.
Some summer youth camps in the US teach entrepreneurship. Here in our country, entrepreneurship is already a subject in some high schools. And some grade schools encourage the activity early by initiating entrepreneurship clubs and organizing selling activities.
Not every child entrepreneur chooses to be an entrepreneur when they grow up. But the lessons learned are timeless, from supply management, financial management (it’s applied mathematics when they count change!) and customer service, among others.
Is your child showing signs of interest in entrepreneurship? Support him and watch him grow.
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Our country needs more entrepreneurs to help create job and overall help our economy and it’s really fascinating to hear children already interested in going into business and actually putting it into practice.
UBNSolutions
This is a “blue print” in the making, a term coined in the books of T.Harv Eker Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and Rich Dad Poor Dad of Robert Kyusaki.
When I was a child, my means of earning is by working in my grand father’s copra business and making coconut charcoal. At the same time selling ice candies, cornicks, cigarettes, etc. From then, on, I have this urge of making money out from a business. At present, I have my own small outsourcing firm and on the process of putting off Henry Sy in the no.1 list of Richest in the Philippines (just joking) but kidding aside, once, this new software venture will be up and running, my company could end up in the world’s lists among google, yahoo, and baidu…who knows! This is what a childhood dreams are all made about…entrepreneurship.
C.E.O.
I saw this bunch of kids selling accessories and chocolates last saturday at a bazaar in La Vista. I was able to talk to one of them and he told me that they were doing this so that they could help their school sponsor a house for Gawad kalinga. He also told me that they would be joining the greenmeadows this Saturday Dec.20-21 and they were even featured in the Ateneo website. Talk about profit with a heart. Here’s the link to the ateneo site http://www.ateneo.edu/index.php?p=120&type=2&sec=25&aid=6096
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