by Julie Wood | Jul 11, 2015 | blog, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, teaching business, youth entrepreneur
I was very fortunate to have both of my parents as entrepreneurial role models as I was growing up. Both my mom and dad owned their own businesses at one time during my life and through growing up on a farm and raising steers for 4-H I learned that you can earn money...
by Julie Wood | Mar 29, 2015 | author, blog, business operations, Camps, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, marketing, Teachers, teaching business, youth entrepreneur
I love to learn, especially about entrepreneurship and small business! I read book after book on the subject; I don’t usually read fiction unless it’s something like “All in Startup” which is fiction inside non-fiction (more on that in a later post). I...
by Julie Wood | Mar 15, 2015 | author, blog, Economic Development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship education, kid entrepreneur, Parents, Teachers, teaching business, young entrepreneur, youth entrepreneur, Youth Organizations
Starting a business is a lot like starting a family; if you wait for the time be perfect – it will never happen. They are both huge commitments in time, energy and emotion and that commitment will last for years. When I was 27, I started my first “real business” – an...
by Julie Wood | Apr 9, 2014 | author, blog, book writing, entrepreneur, marketing, youth entrepreneur
More Than a Lemonade Stand is what youth entrepreneur programs are all about. Have you ever been someplace and all of sudden that light bulb goes – you know it – that ‘aha’ moment. When I was at Brendon Burchard’s Experts Academy a few years ago – I was working in a...
by Julie Wood | Mar 17, 2014 | author, book writing, entrepreneur, marketing
I’ve been back a week from Author 101 University and I finally sifted through all the materials and started getting to work on the 3 things I wrote down to focus on: 1) Build my platform (more on that in a moment), 2) Finish writing my book, 3) Follow up and...