GREAT 141 IDEA: Hire Teenagers
Seven out of ten high school students want to start a business, according to a recent Gallup Poll. The primary motivation was to be the boss, not to earn a lot of money.
Although there are no firm statistics on how many of America's teens run small businesses, the numbers are well into the hundreds of thousands and growing, according to those involved in training young entrepreneurs. Teens are selling handmade crafts, moving furniture, detailing cars, and designing clothes, among other ventures. But not all teenagers have a natural entrepreneurial bent.
Despite this strong interest, 86 percent of the teens surveyed said they lacked the skills needed to start even the simplest business. The Gallup study, commissioned ...
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