The Jeff Pulver Blog: Encouraging our Kids to become Entrepreneurs:

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October 09, 2007

Encouraging our Kids to become Entrepreneurs:

My “Dot Com” kids Dylan and Jake are growing up. Now that my twin sons are 13 ½ years old, they have been looking at ways to make some extra money, as a way to supplement their weekly allowance. As a result, my kids are now working together on plans to do something which may turn into their first internet startup.

To put things into perspective, my kids have been on the Internet since they turned 3. They learned to read at age 4 so they could better interact with search engines. These are kids who have been growing up ON the Internet. And as a result, the Internet has been a part of their everyday life for a very long time. And I have to ask, how many 13 year old kids do you know can say they have been actively exposed to the Internet as long?

This all started just a few days ago after I posted a guest blog from my son Jake who shared his take on the Apple iPod Touch. Based on the feedback he received from sharing his experience, Jake and Dylan started exploring the possibility of launching a site which covered the areas of interest they were both passionate about. Now if my kids actually follow up, get their home work done and spend the time needed on this project, they may actually end up with something very interesting and a new pulver.com startup.

Tags: Apple, iPod, Entrepreneur, Dylan Pulver, Jake Pulver, Jeff Pulver

Posted by jeff on October 9, 2007 05:17 AM | Permalink

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Kids yearn to know their place in the world and how THEY can make a difference

By Jennifer Bouani
Award Winning Author, Tyler and His Solve-a-matic Machine

The Way We Were…

We adults grew up in a world where we actually referenced a big thick phone book to find someone’s address or flipped through the newspaper to find when a movie starts.

New Breed of Info Seekers

Today’s kids are a whole new breed of information seekers. They have the world available to them through a keyword search engine. And today’s kids can send pictures back and forth to a kid halfway across the world through a phone in an instant. It’s a smaller world, after all. And as a result of this, today’s kids want more from their books than Judy Blume, Nancy Drew and Star Wars gave us. They are yearning to know their place in their world and how THEY can make a difference in it.

Others Agree

Back in May, I attended a BookExpo (Washington DC) breakout session called Trends Impacting the Future of Children’s Publishing moderated by Dr. Mary Manz Simon, children’s market trend tracker with the following panelists:

·Kate Klimo, VP Random House/Golden Books

·Valerie Garfield, VP, Assc Publisher, Simon Spotlight and Little Simon, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Div

·Craig Walker, VP Editorial and Media, Trade Paperbacks, Scholastic

·Bruce Nuffer, President, Zonderkidz

The panel discussed the differences in this generation of kids and how publishing is changing because kids today are yearning to find their place in the world.

More Than Lemonade Stands
Recenting, I met with a few 3rd-5th grade kids. They and their parents had gathered to meet me in a “meet the author” event. We chatted in a conference table in a room with a white board. I asked them, “Now that you have read the book, do you want to own your own business one day?” They said they did. “What sort of business would you like to have?” I asked.

The first boy said he wanted to own a motorcycle store. So, I drew his motorcycle shop up on the white board with motorcycles and stick people customers. Another kid wanted to own his own outdoor/hunting store. So, I drew that up on the board, across the street from the motorcycle shop. The third kid wanted to own a hardward/software store. “Well, that’s perfect! Because the motorcycle store and the outdoor/hunting store will need hardware and software to run their store,” I said, explaining the relationship between customers and vendors. And so it went.

The kids were so engaged in the moment. They could envision their place in the world, and they could do it with their peers. They had a dream to work towards.

At the end, a mother asked the kids, “Ok, what words did you learn today?” The first kid shouted, “Entrepreneur!” and the next said, “Brainstorming!” As I watched big grins take over the kids faces and the eyes of the parents sparkle, I felt an enormous amount of energy in the room, and I thought back to the long nights and weekends I had spent alone typing at my computer, writing Tyler and His Solve-a-matic MachineThe hairs raised on my arms at this moment when I realized we really do have the power to make a difference in kids’ lives and the future of America.

Check it out: Ramit Sethi blogs about an experience he had when he visited a group of kids to teach them about entrepreneurship.

Posted by: Bouje at November 6, 2007 06:12 PM

I wish them good luck too!

Posted by: Michelle at October 10, 2007 08:11 AM

My 13-year-old son has been poking around the internet since before he was three, but to begin with the poking consisted mainly of playing various flash games.

By the way, Jeff: how about adding per-post RSS feeds for comments? It's a bit primitive having to check back manually.

Posted by: Hans Persson at October 9, 2007 10:37 AM

Cool! I'm 12 and I do a live podcast, blog and am a big mac user. It's great to see other young people are adapting to technology. Send me a link to their startup and I'll get them on my show!

blog - http://nichm.com
podcast - http://blastr.tv

Posted by: NichM at October 9, 2007 08:50 AM

It's great to see them empowered with the mind-expanding abilities the Internet can grant you, but make sure they also learn hardcore, old-school stuff, too. How can you continue to be effective, continue to generate results, if your access to the grid is disrupted? The ability to remain competent in the event of grid failure, localized or global, is a skill that will become more and more highly prized as our society becomes more reliant on technology that is as fallible as its human creators.

Posted by: Christopher S. Penn at October 9, 2007 07:42 AM

Hey Jeff... my doughter is 4 months...
I couldn't imagine what will happen to her 13teen years old!!
alex

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Pulver and Sons, a web 3.0 company, from the days of CB radio up to the digital era of user generated content.

Good luck with this project.

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Encouraging our Kids to become Entrepreneurs:

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