Business Webinars
Want to learn how to succeed as your own boss? Seeking insight from top young entrepreneurs across the country? Look no further!
Independent Youth holds quarterly webinars. These webinars are designed to increase your understanding of entrepreneurship. The Business Webinars are pre-recorded and delivered by successful young entrepreneurs across the country. Each presenter addresses a specific topic within entrepreneurship.
Featured Business Webinar
Business Leadership
Presenter: Jordan Williams and Brandon Iverson, Founders of Making Money for Teens
Overview: Jordan and Brandon are 13 year-old entrepreneurs who started their first business, Kids Toys Inc., at age 10. They now own a teen financial education business called Making Money For Teens and currently have a fun Making Money For Teens CD series that teaches kids and teens how to start investing in the stock market and start their own business.
During the Jordan and Brandon will discuss qualities of leaders, utilizing the right mentality, time management, communication, teamwork, goal setting and self-improvement.
Watch Video: Business Leadership
Future Business Webinars
The Social Media Revolution & What it Means for Business
Date: Coming Soon
Presenter: Lane Sutton, Social Media Consultant & Founder of www.KidCriticUSA.com.
Overview: Lane Sutton is a 14 year old entrepreneur who has combined his knowledge of technology with his interest in business to work as a Social Media Strategist, helping other companies effectively integrate social media into their marketing strategy. Additionally, Lane founded and currently runs www.KidCriticUSA.com, a popular review site with movies, books, activities, products, restaurants and more.
During the Webinar Lane will discuss the use of Social Media in business, why it is important to new business owners, how to be active on networks, the impact of social networking and its revolution.
Archived Business Webinars
Social Responsibility in Everyday Business
Presenter: Zack Gooding, Founder of Guiltless Giving
Overview: Zack is a 13 year old student that started Guiltless Giving. His company provides homeless individuals Dare to Care Kits, inexpensive hygiene kits that include everyday essentials and a useful reference card to help the homeless.
During the Webinar Zack will give an overview of Guiltless Giving as he discusses the foundation on which the business was founded. In this presentation he focuses on the initial problem he saw in his community and the solution he implemented through his own business venture at the age of 9 years old.
Watch Video: Social Responsiblity in Everyday Business - Guiltless Giving
Entrepreneurship: Idea Conception to Implementation: Product Development
Presenter: Anshul Samar, Founder of Elemeteo
Overview: Anshul is a 17 year old high school student that started a company called Elemento. The Elementeo card game uses gaming to help kids explore the world of science. Elementeo and Anshul have received significant coverage from Scholastic, The New York Times, PBS, and FOX.
During the Webinar Anshul will give an overview of Elemento and his personal experience developing the company. The presentation will touch on various aspects of business including; manufacturing, marketing, distribution, retailing and international vendor relations.
Watch Video: Idea Conception to Implementation: Product Development
Entrepreneurship: The Power of One Person to Change Society
Presenter: Neha Gupta, Founder of Empower Orphans
Overview: Neha is a high school student that started the non-profit organization Empower Orphans in 2005 at the young age of 9 years old. Empower Orphans is a grassroots campaign aimed at improving the lives of orphaned and/or abandoned children globally.
During the Webinar Neha will share what it takes for an individual to make a change in society through entrepreneurship. Areas of discussion include; starting a 501(c)3, developing a concept in order to implement change, and inspirational famous people that have proven change is possible. Neha will also share her personal experience as a young entrepreneur.
Watch Video: The Power of One to Person to Change Society
Effective Marketing Techniques for a New Business
Diane Keng, Co-Founder & Marketing Director of MyWeboo Inc.
Overview: This presentation focuses on effective marketing techniques for a new business. The Webinar covers basic marketing principals, non-traditional vs. traditional marketing and branding.
Watch Video: Effective Marketing Techniques for a New Business
“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
– Mary K Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics
“As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
– Donald Trump, real estate and entertainment mogul
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel, fashion designer
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.”
– Roy Ash, founder of Litton Industries
“You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.”
– Les Brown, founder of best-selling author and motivational speaker
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder of Chuck E. Cheese's
“Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can live the rest of your life like most people can't.”
– Anonymous
“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey, business mogul, talk show host and producer
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil Company
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American hair care products and America's first black female millionaire
“If you dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company
“I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren't enough who will move ahead and take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
– W. Clement Stone, Businessman
“Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.”
– Harvey Firestone, founder of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
“You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.”
– Les Brown, founder of best-selling author and motivational speaker
“Find your passion...then it is no longer work!”
– L.A. Reid, co-founder of LaFace Records
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. everything else is secondary.”
– Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and Pixar
“The important this is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist, CEO of Garage Technology Ventures