Entrepreneurship

Over the last six months I’ve been chronicling Brooklyn’s first entrepreneurial endeavor. On one of the many days I was watching her ride, I got to thinking about how many lessons you can learn on the back of a horse that apply to both life and starting a business. Follow your passion There is something about horses […]

 (Note: if you haven’t been following my earlier posts, you should start here first) With the products ready to go, a price set, our next task was to figure out how to hit the $100 profit goal. As with any good business, you start with your network for the initial sale. At 9 years old, Brooklyn’s

(Note: if you haven’t been following my earlier posts, you should start here first) With a product idea locked down, it was time to research the different ways to create salt scrubs. The good news is that there are plenty of recipes out there. After scouring the web, we settled on a recipe that would keep

With the product idea nailed down, the next step for Brooklyn was to come up with a name for her business. This was a great test of creativity and helped introduce her to the concept of brainstorming. At this stage I encouraged her to throw every name out she could think of. I would jot

With the entrepreneurial primer complete, I set off to help Brooklyn uncover a passion she could tap into as part of building her new business. The first place we started was a simple list of her passions and things she felt she was good at. Here is what she came up with: Training Dogs Horseback riding

Somewhere along the line entrepreneurs caught the bug. They developed a passion to create, a belief they could accomplish their goals, a desire to work hard to achieve them and continued to get up after being knocked down. Obviously, you don’t need to be an entrepreneur to develop these traits, but you sure can’t be