Grow in Entrepreneurship
So you didn’t get into LaunchX? Rachel knows a thing or two about the sting of rejection and shares what she learned from two years of college rejections.
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Timeliness, precision, and low cost are baseline expectations, the necessary foundation. On top of this foundation, you must add value to the top line. How can finance leaders do all this with fewer resources?
Your start-up will only become a successful business with the right preparation - a good startup checklist. This may sound simplistic; however, careless preparation is the most common reason why many initially promising businesses fail to flourish. There are many hurdles on the path to a successful business concept, but most can be overcome.
So how did I become a high school entrepreneur? Here are 4 tips to get started from the lessons I learned while building my own startups in high school:
Test your entrepreneurial mindset with these questions, and learn how to grow your entrepreneurial mindset. This can be your key differentiator between a successful startup and an unsuccessful one.
Never have I felt more behind than when I first started learning how to code. When I went to hackathons or coding competitions as a complete beginner—not knowing anyone else in the community—I felt like I didn’t quite belong. Most of the people in the tech space were male, and as a female with limited experience in programming, I felt like I wasn’t meant to be there.
Here are the 3 key learnings from our LaunchX experience that my team and I have applied to these business pitch competitions:
There is nothing more exciting than the beginning of something new. New ideas, new phase of life, new friendships, new careers... LaunchX is the beginning of an amazing entrepreneurial journey for both our fearless students and us here at LaunchX! Who knows what new challenges the student teams will solve? How many heights they we conquer? How many exciting new connections they we make?
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question few high school students have the answer to. But North Peace Secondary Student Jessica Telizyn knows exactly what she wants to do
