Brian’s youth entrepreneurship books and work with kids opened his eyes to their remarkable creativity and inspired his corporate innovation work.
The Startup Squad series and You’re The Boss will inspire kids to start their first businesses and empower them to think like entrepreneurs.
“A one-stop shop for all future entrepreneurs…there are impossibly few resources…that take on this topic and cover it in such depth” – School Library Journal
“This helpful and timely offering will appeal to future tycoons” – Booklist
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
“This book is just what every budding entrepreneur needs, child or adult. It’s filled with easy-to-digest information, inspirational stories and immediate actions to bring your dreams to life…This isn’t just a book about starting a business, this is a book about developing a mindset that will serve us well throughout life…It is a kids book but…this is a book that I think anyone, anyone could benefit from. But my goodness to get it as a child, and to realize the possibilities and to have it not seem daunting, but doable with so many examples filled in the pages of how and why, it’s powerful, it’s so so powerful.” – KidLit Love Podcast
From the the renowned entrepreneur and co-author of The Startup Squad series, You’re The Boss: A Kid’s Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Business is a guide to entrepreneurship filled with everything a kid, tween, or teen needs to know to start their own business: from business ideas to finding customers to pricing products to building an empire!
Are you bursting with great ideas for a new business but aren’t quite sure where to start? Do you know that you’d be great at selling something but first need to figure out what that “something” actually is? Are you gearing up to be an entrepreneur but think that kids can’t really build anything big? If any of these sound like you—you’ve come to the right book!
You’re never too young to start a business. Whether you want to launch a babysitting service, run a lemonade stand, sell crafts online—or don’t even know what business to start—You’re the Boss is here to help. In this book, you’ll learn how to figure out which business is right for you, find your ideal customers, manage the competition, calculate costs and profits, pitch your ideas, and so much more.
Ready to build up the confidence, creativity, and grit that come along with being an entrepreneur—and ready to make some money and build your business empire along the way? Let You’re the Boss show you how!
