Calling all teen entrepreneurs!

[HannahWilson]

Hello fellow FIRSTers! I am starting a business and entrepreneurship online community for teens who are interested in teaching themselves vocational skills, starting a company, or making something awesome that makes the world a better place.

http://teenpro.net/

You can read the longer version of why I started teenpro here and see my business experience here, but here's the short version.

I've always been interested in business, entrepreneurship, and skills like graphic design, software design, and video editing, but I never met anyone my age who was also interested in it as a serious career path. I Googled "teen entreprenuers" and similar terms, and came across very little information written BY teens, and most of what I read was very vague. The articles seemed like they were written by older people who might not understand the changing business climate and what the market needs now, and assume that the only technical jobs teens can get are as programmers and graphic designers, while in reality teen skills cover a much wider range of professional application. (But those are great skills too, obviously. The articles just weren't thinking very creatively.)

So I started teenpro as a way for teens to help each other out in the very exciting journey of teaching yourself skills, not depending on school to fulfill you creatively (which it doesn't), and potentially starting a business.

Please join the community! Right now there aren't many people, but we can grow it to be a strong and larger community. I know that there ARE entrepreneurial minded teens out there, it's just hard finding them.

So if you know of friends who would be interested, please share teenpro.net and what we're about!

[safiq10]

I am right about to sign up! This sounds like a wonderful chance to meet other teen entrepreneurs. I can't wait to see where this goes, If you need any help please DM me or contact me. I would love to help in any way that is possible.

[weaversam8]

This seems like a really cool site! I will register right away. This is something that all FIRSTers should join!

[HannahWilson]

Great, thanks! I opened up my email earlier and got lots of notifications from teenpro saying that people were joining, and I was so happy I almost teared up.

I am definitely open to any suggestions, so let me know if you have any ideas to make it better. Or even better... start a forum post here!

I really appreciate the support I'm getting, so once again, thanks!

And the more people join the better, so if you know anyone at all who would be interested in this, please let them know. If you have lots of geeky friends on Facebook, that's a great way to reach a lot of people at once.