Kids Starting Businesses

Updated on April 5, 2019

Does your kid want to start a business? These sites have free guidance and resources for kidpreneurs.

Youth Entrepreneurship Academy – Free Curriculum for K-12 Teachers

The Youth Entrepreneurship Academy is a six-pronged extensive curriculum with lessons in foundational values, entrepreneurial mindset, economics, marketing, business finance, and applied principled entrepreneurship. YE Academy partners with businesses to provide funding to help schools implement this curriculum. Each prong…

Independent Youth

Learn how to start and run your own business with the webinars and information provided on this site. The webinars are presented by teen entrepreneurs and include topics such as idea to product development, business leadership, and how you can…

Accounting Lessons and Help

From site:  This tutorial is general in nature, and is meant to help focus your studies, and provide a review of major concepts introduced in each chapter. It is not meant to be a substitute for your textbook. It is…

Principles of Accounting

From site: This free online textbook provides complete coverage of material found in most college-level financial accounting courses and managerial accounting courses.  In addition to the text, this principles of accounting book includes a number of interactive components to aid your…

Hot Shot Business

Forget space aliens and race cars — here’s a game that gives kids skills they can use for the rest of their lives.  Hot Shot Business is a fast-paced simulation game for budding entrepeneurs, where kids open their own pet…

Successful Investor Project

High school teacher Greg Fisher created these lesson plan materials to help students learn about economics by starting a business.  This semester-long course takes students through the steps of planning and investing for a business.  There are rubrics to help…

These Kids Mean Busines$

From site:  A quiet revolution has been growing in recent years. In THESE KIDS MEAN BUSINES$, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page tells the story of young budding entrepreneurs across the country and the programs created to foster their interest and…

SBA

SBA offers free online courses, monthly chat events and newsletters for people starting their own businesses.  There is an extensive library of information on planning a business, getting funding, finding a mentor, licensing and permits, selecting a location, marketing, insurance…

My Own Business

From site:  My Own Business, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to helping people succeed in business. The course is presented by successful business owners who point out the common, avoidable mistakes… Our course is geared toward the entrepreneur who…

So You Want to Learn Bookkeeping!

From site:  This free bookkeeping tutorial is geared to business owners, managers, and individuals who have not had any formal bookkeeping training or on the job experience and need or want to learn the basics of bookkeeping. In other words,…