August 30th, 2010 by wadeinni
You try, try, and try again but none of your attempts to build a successful startup seem to work. So what are you doing wrong? The first thing you SHOULD NOT do is doubt your skills as a young entrepreneur. You’ve taken a risk to create a useful product or service that will reward you financially long before you reach retirement age at 65. Most people spend their entire lives avoiding healthy risk because of seven fears, but fear of failure being the main one, so they never see success or wealth at an early age. Also if you are like most young entrepreneurs, you tend to get a lot of negative feedback from people who don’t understand what you’re doing. Usually your main critics tend to be family members who often say “you need to find a job” or “you need to stay in college and get a degree.”… Read Full Post
Tags: build a successful startup, Instant Success and Gratification, Low Goals and Expectations, planning to fail by failing to plan, Possessing a Lack of persistence, struggle as a young entrepreneur
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August 28th, 2010 by TCGIRL
Lazy people, they’re everywhere in every country. Students who slack off, they’re everywhere in most schools. Noticed I didn’t say they’re everywhere in every school. Schools such as military and boarding schools might let you in lazy, but you come out disciplined or driven. So whats the deal with slacker students who go to school day in and day out and don’t give an ounce of thought to advancing from point A to C on the success ladder of life. Maybe dropping out or leaving them back is the answer. In my opinion, that’s never the answer. I believe everyone has some sort of useful potential. Sometimes it’s hidden so deep, they need someone to light a fire under them to spark their drive and motivation. By the way don’t take the word fire literally, it’s a figure of speech.
What makes some high school students more driven to succeed… Read Full Post
Tags: lazy students, slacker student
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August 27th, 2010 by wadeinni
Not too many college students hide the fact they’re broke. It’s like a right of passage to proclaim their lack of funds, but not every college guy or gal want to remain a member of this less than prestigious club. When the paltry stipend from mom and dad is not enough, many students turn to other popular but risky ways to make money. These are the top three ways financially needy and risk taking students dive in head first to get paid.
Daytrading the Stock Market in College
While investing in the stock market with reputable and proven growth stocks is a great way to start your financial portfolio, impatient students don’t have 10 years to wait for a return on their investment. Opening a stock market account is pretty easy and requires your attention to breaking market news and updates. Even with a busy course load,… Read Full Post
Tags: broke college students looking for cash, Daytrading the Stock Market in College, discount brokerage account, Risky Money Hustles, risky ways to make money, Selling Illegal Substances On and Off College Campus, selling low risk drugs
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August 26th, 2010 by wadeinni
If you have big dreams, you’ve probably heard the overused cliche, “build it and they will come”. This inspire you to take a leap of faith and spin your first business idea into a startup reality. Next you tell a few friends, send out email blasts, and tell them to tell a few friends about your big business and website launch. Now you sit patiently watching your computer waiting for the millions to flock to your website, but there’s one big problem, only about 15 or 20 people showed up to your site.
So what happened?!! Well it’s time for a reality check. You’re just not that popular or better yet, nobody and no search engine really know about your site or what it does yet. So your website’s house warming party is a bust. That’s OK though, here’s what you need to do to get your startup name and… Read Full Post
Tags: online marketing channels, submit your pages to the social bookmarks, Use Social Media and SEO to Promote
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August 26th, 2010 by superwoman
How do you teach students to become entrepreneurs, honestly you can’t, there’s no real classroom entrepreneur 101. But you can show them ways to tap into their raw hustling or natural marketing smarts to build something valuable. Here’s an idea, if you are enrolled in a high school for example that teaches marketing, and you need to raise funds for a trip or awards simply start a store.
That’s right, no business registration or incorporation certificates necessary. Start a classroom or school store, buy school supplies in cheap bulk and have students buy and sell them to other students in the high school at a small markup on the original prices. This is a clever way to raise money for any future trips or activities that require a payment. You can also expand on the school store idea and have occasional bake sales and car washes. Students tend to… Read Full Post
Tags: hands on work experience, learn marketing skills, Start a classroom or school store, start potential startup businesses, students to become entrepreneurs
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August 25th, 2010 by TCGIRL
You hear about people who drop out of high school and went on to become super rich and successful from smart business hustles, but if you’re planning on dropping out and don’t have a particular financially beneficial reason to do it, you might be setting yourself up for failure. The list of many popular millionaires today who dropped out of high school to make millions is pretty long. But what are the odds you will duplicate the success they had if you dropout.
Here’s a rundown of some famous names who made million dollar empires after dropping out of high school while others were preparing for SAT exams and high school sports. These aren’t your average dropouts, most had a crazy drive to make money or had investors backing them for ideas they thought could make millions.
Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)
Jay-z is an inspirational story… Read Full Post
Tags: creator of Mickey Mouse, Dave Thomas founder of Wendy's Restaurants, Drop Out of High School, famous dropouts, Jay-z Founder of Rocafella Records, rich and successful, Richard Branson founder of Virgin Records, Walt Disney founder of the Walt Disney Company
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August 25th, 2010 by wadeinni
If writing on your own website is your hobby and passion, that’s all good, but if you live in Philly (Philadelphia), you might have to fork over $300 to the local government to keep your online hustle going. Let me make that clearer. If you have a blog or website with ads on it, and even if you only made fifty cents for the year, Philly might charge you a $300 Philadelphia business license to keep making that chump change.
High School and college students are no exception either, Philly and many states operate under strange business laws that say if you live there, and run any business from home that’s commercial in any way, you gotta pay up. In this case, even though your personal blogs and websites are not registered businesses but are managed from computers out of your home, you must still pay up to $300… Read Full Post
Tags: $300 Philadelphia business license, home business in Philadelphia, philadelphia bloggers, philly bloggers, student bloggers
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August 24th, 2010 by wadeinni
Real quick, can you name all eight Ivy league colleges? Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Cornell. If you couldn’t name any or just one, that’s because it’s not important, unless you’re a student bent on going to one of these elite and exclusive schools. Speaking of which, most students who go to these private ivy league colleges tend to be upper middle class to wealthy kids from decent public high schools to really top ranked private prep schools. What if you don’t fit into the ideal wealthy student from top notch high school category? Let’s make it more challenging. What if you’re one of many at risk students attending inner city high schools with low graduation rates. can you ever have a shot at getting accepted to any of the ivy league colleges listed here? Don’t be surprised if a say don’t count yourself… Read Full Post
Tags: Eastside High School in Paterson, high student dropout rate, Ivy league colleges, rough urban city
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August 23rd, 2010 by superwoman
Internships are great to have under your belt especially as a college student desperate for some work experience, but sometimes you get ahead of yourself and accept the first one that comes your way. You spend quality time getting to work on time, impressing the boss with running simple office errands, and photocopying your day away. But is this what you actually dreamed about doing at your college internship? I doubt it. So how do you survive the day to day grind of a lackluster, not so challenging, and just plain dull college internship?
Well for starters don’t look at your employment situation as a negative. There are still students out there who weren’t as lucky as you to land that coveted position. If you’re feeling less than thrilled that you haven’t landed an internship with your ideal job, take a breather, zoom out and look at the bigger… Read Full Post
Tags: habitual boredom, how you can be of help, surviving a dull college internship, work experience
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