
Learn entrepreneurship fundamentals; discover how a young entrepreneur under 22 generates ideas, assesses market opportunities, and starts low-investment online or home-based ventures.
Explore the core characteristics of entrepreneurship, including innovation, creativity, persistence, resilience, and flexibility. Learn to generate ideas, set clear objectives, and assess market opportunities with confidence and vision.
Identify your business idea by answering four questions: your interests, your strengths, your long term goals, and market trends, then test and refine ideas with persistence.
Learn how to assess your market opportunity by researching customers, competition, and industry, and by using online tools to test and validate your business idea.
Explore online business options for young entrepreneurs under 22, including home-based, freelance, and franchise models, with low start-up costs, quick setup, and flexible part-time schedules.
Explore starting a home-based business, including benefits like flexibility and low start-up costs, and tackle challenges such as work-life balance, isolation, and maintaining a professional image.
Freelancing lets you start a client-driven business quickly with a laptop and in-demand skills, including programming and web development, using freelancer's dot com and 99designs dot com.
Franchising helps young entrepreneurs start with an established brand, gaining training, support, and proven practices, with resources like franchising dot com and franchise dot org for opportunities and guidance.
Develop a concise, one-page executive summary for a practical business plan. Cover market analysis, organization and management, sales strategies, funding needs, and three-year financial projections.
Explore financing your business with bootstrapping, crowdfunding, micro-loans, and angel investors, using low-cost marketing, testing ideas, and preserving ownership while scaling.
Choose the right form of business registration to manage liabilities and taxes. Explore sole proprietorship, partnerships, and limited liability company, learn about partnership agreements, profit division, disputes, and ownership changes.
Find local and online mentors through your circle and local business resources to gain practical advice, and build a mutual, respectful relationship with punctual, prepared communication.
Identify an online mentor to support your young entrepreneurial journey by using practical communication tools and exploring mentor networks on Facebook, LinkedIn, 500.co/mentors, and Score.org.
Identify practical online resources you can access for three or four small fees, including YouTube videos, blogs, forums, webinars, and groups on Facebook and LinkedIn for advice and mentorship.
Recognize that entrepreneurship demands skill, persistence, passion, and hard work. Explore how to generate ideas, assess market opportunities, write a plan, and pursue options like freelancing, home-based business, or franchise.
Welcome to our course on How to Start a Business as a Young Entrepreneur Under 22 Years Old.
This course is designed for young entrepreneurs looking to start a new business career.
By the end of the course, you will:
- be able to understand entrepreneurship,
- grasp 4 ideal business options for young entrepreneurs, you will benefit from more than 30 online resources available for young entrepreneurs,
- get practical advice on how to write a business plan,
- learn how to register and finance your business, and
- understand how to get additional advice either locally or online through mentors or online resources.
Course starts by providing an overview of what are the fundamentals for success for successful entrepreneurs. Then, we walk through the business options that are ideal for young entrepreneurs including online business, home based business, freelance work and franchising. Course continues by providing practical tips on what should be included in the business plan, how to finance and how to register legally your business. At the end, we look at practical advice on how to get a local mentor and an online mentor as well as how to access valuable online resources available for young entrepreneurs that are provided in this course.
The ideal student for this course is a young entrepreneur looking to start a new business career, full-time employee or full-time student looking to create their first business. Course is also relevant for any new or existing entrepreneur that wants to start a new business, launch a new product or service, grow an existing business, or even a full-time employee looking to make a career move from a full-time job to being their own boss.
There are no technical requirements necessary to enroll. We only ask that you come open minded and ready to learn and ready to take some risks.
In order to attend this course, you need to follow the course videos, access additional websites provided in the course, utilize the templates provided for preparation of Business Plan and engage with the course participants and instructor.
If you need personal support, I am here to help!
The instructor for this course is AJ who brings a wealthy business and educational background including 20 years of business experience having founded and developed multiple companies. He has coached more than 200 startups and has trained more than 10,000 people including top level executives, managers and business owners. Also, AJ has an educational background teaching Entrepreneurship courses to University students.