Andrea Valeri
BREAKING INTO THE BUSINESS !!!!
Let's face it most
teenagers now-a-days are more up on technology than
their parents. And with technology
being a growing field of interest and
opportunity, many teens find their
way into this field through starting
their own businesses.
One greatly publicized
example of this fact is founder and CEO of
Napster, Shawn Fanning. Napster is
an online company which provides
trading and downloading of music.
Napster has come under attack by such
groups as Metallica, who are suing
young Shawn Fanning for the free
distribution of their music online.
However we cannot deny the enormous
success of this company Napster, which
was apparently founded in Fanning's
dorm room. Fanning expressed his thoughts
on the longevity of his creation
in an MTV interview with Kurt Loder
by saying "The ability to interact
with people and communicate…it's just
sort of a combination of
technologies. So to me, it's obviously
something that people really like.
It's something that will continue
to exist."
"Teenage entrepreneurship
is on the rise" according to an online
studyconducted through studentadvantage.com.
And studies done through the
research firm, Computre Economics,
show that over the next 5 years about
1.6 million teens graduating high
school will get involved in some sort of
entrepreneurship such Internet business.
A goal of starting
their own business may seem so far fetched to most
teens, but the reality shows us different.
As with the example of 13 year
old Colin, who spins records for a
living while attending school full
time. This young D.J says that " …a
person that would start their own
business at a young age would have
a better chance of being successful in
their field than a person who starts
later on in life." Well said by a 13
year old who is making money while
doing something that he loves, while
others his age are busy playing Playstation.
"Teenagers have
the wisdom to make their business successful" says
Samual Miller, engineer senior and
president of Michigan Entrepreneurs.
The knowledge, creativity, and ingenuity
of teenagers is giving us the
power to run our own business and
be accepted as young entrepreneurs.
Whether it is Joel
Padron who is 18 and running his own full service
gardening entrprise, Ryan Zacharia
a 16 year old chief executive officer
of Zeal Network Inc. Or 16 year old
Gabriel Cadet and his 16 year old
partner, Shawn Remmer, who own Latin
Lingo which caters to the musical
needs of it's teen clients by bringing
their sounds to local high school
parties with music ranging from Latin
Salsa to the latest hip hop. We as
teenagers are emerging as the new
generation of entrepreneurs.
