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Company | Biz in a Boxx | ||
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| http://www.bizinaboxx.com | ||||
| Founded: | 11/01/2008 | |||
| City: | Scottsdale, Arizona | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Melissa Rose | |||
| Founders: | Melissa Rose | |||
| Category: | Other | Funding: | Seed/Friends & Family | |
| Tags: | games, business, kids | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does Biz in a Boxx do?
Biz in a Boxx provides kids, ages 7 and up, with the practical fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Each kit is age-appropriate and provides information on topics from coming up with an idea to hiring staff, pricing, target markets, marketing and advertising. Within each topic are a series of simple questions that allow kids to create a functional business plan while they formulate their business. It’s easy to do and not weighed down with theories or suggestion that can’t be implemented. There is a free online forum to get additional help. The kids can also create their personal business cards that come with each kit for free on the website.
How are they different?
There has never been a product accessible to all kids that easily guides them through starting and running their own business. The few youth entrepreneurship programs out there provide traditional and guided instruction that control creativity and ownership which are the most valued benefits to teaching youth entrepreneurship.
With Biz in a Boxx, kids can come up with their own ideas based on their interests and passions and create a business around it easily and all by themselves. Best of all, it’s experiential meaning it’s designed for kids to run their business and make money in the real world.
Why could Biz in a Boxx be BIG?
There are over 50 million kids between the ages of 5 and 18 in the US alone and approximately 80 percent receive no entrepreneurial training before graduating from high school. In order to strengthen our economy and create jobs, it’s imperative to start preparing today’s youth to lead tomorrow’s free enterprise system.
How they plan to make money:
Selling the Biz in a Boxx kits, which are extremely affordable.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.bizinaboxx.com
This seems like a very interesting way to teach entrepreneurship. I few questions come to mind; do they have to teach themselves with the box or is it intended to be used in the classroom? How does this teach them to work as a team? One of the biggest parts of owning a company or even working professionally is working with others. Very few companies come to be successful with only one founder.
What about sole proprietors and small businesses that are the backbone of our country’s economy? This is a great idea, finally something practical and realistic for kids to grab onto.
[...] via discoveringstartups.com [...]
Juliana, yes, there is an abundance of encouragement for the kids to work with friends, hire “staff” and teamwork. There’s even a section on the value of having meetings with your team. At the school level, the kids can also work on their business with a partner or two or as a class on one business. We have a classroom manual that even shows ways where the kids can outsource their products from one another.
With Biz in a Boxx, the kids are learning the practical fundamentals of business ownership while creating a functional business plan. There are three versions, according to age, to help the kids take full ownership over their ideas. We know that kids like to work with their peers and Biz in a Boxx is designed for that.
We also have free, secure forums for our entrepreneurs to help them all along the way.