by Julie Wood | Jun 30, 2018 | blog, business operations, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Lemonade Stand, Parents, teaching business, teaching entrepreneurship, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur camp
Summer’s are HOT which makes it a great opportunity for you to take advantage of the neighborhood lemonade stand. TIP: If the young entrepreneurs are smart, they will set it up in the shade or pop-up a shade tent to help you cool down even more. But Lemonade...
by Julie Wood | Dec 3, 2017 | blog, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, Parents, Teachers, teaching entrepreneurship, Uncategorized, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
Helping Kids Choose a Business Idea they can Start (Part 2 of the 5 things to successfully teach kids entrepreneurship series) One thing that we discuss in the More Than a Lemonade Stand™ youth entrepreneur program, before having kids choose a business idea, is what...
by Julie Wood | Jun 4, 2016 | author, blog, Camps, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Lemonade Stand, Parents, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur
Spring is only a month away (even though in Wisconsin it keeps snowing every other day) and summer will be here before we know it. So it is time to start thinking about your kid’s summer camp. If you haven’t taken advantage of providing a summer camp...
by Julie Wood | Apr 9, 2016 | author, blog, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur
Last week I finished directing a production of Fame Jr with my son Ryan at our local community theater group. As I reflect back on the experience, I realize that both entrepreneurship and theater have a lot in common when it comes to the life skills they teach. Here...
by Julie Wood | Oct 15, 2015 | blog, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
I am an avid reader of ideas for teaching entrepreneurship not only for improving my own teaching of entrepreneurship but also so I can help parents and teachers implement entrepreneurship education in easy and effective ways. Sometimes we forget about the everyday...
by Julie Wood | Sep 26, 2015 | blog, Camps, Economic Development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations, youth unemployment
My theory is that you can’t really teach kids how to be an entrepreneur if they don’t know what it is. The hard part is defining what an entrepreneur is! If you Google “What is an Entrepreneur”, you will get 149 million results in a matter of seconds. The first one...