Business and entrepreneurship
Nobody is admitted to being an entrepreneur. What counts is whether a young person has actually made something, sold something, run something, and can account honestly for what happened — including the numbers, especially the bad ones. Clear writing and speaking about their own work matters more here than on any other path.
How old is your child?
A venture with actual accounting. What it cost, what it earned, what went wrong, written down. This is also the age to start the communication work — the measure of how clearly they express ideas, taken seriously.
What most families do instead.
Most families either dismiss early ventures as playing shop, or the opposite — inflate a lemonade stand into a founding myth. Both destroy the value. The venture is worth exactly what its honest numbers and honest lessons are worth, and a record with dates keeps everyone honest.
What the record looks like after two years on this path.
- Two ventures, however small, with real numbers kept: cost, revenue, what went wrong
- One pitch or enterprise competition entered, result recorded
- Communication scores from the seven-skill measure, twice, with the sentence that produced each
- A written honest post-mortem of the venture that failed
Ventures as real projects
Cora treats the market stall or repair service as a project with real accounting, and it enters the record as what it was.
The numbers, kept
Cost, revenue, mistakes — recorded as they happen, which is what makes the story credible later.
Pitch events and enterprise schemes
Young enterprise programmes and business plan competitions, matched to age and country.
Show meSomeone who has done it
A local business owner willing to tell a fifteen-year-old what the first year was actually like.
Show meCommunication, measured
The seven-skill measure tracks how clearly your child expresses ideas, with the evidence sentence attached.
Show meSchools that suit this
Some schools do enterprise well and most do not. If a move is on the table, search by what a school actually offers.
Show meWhat to do this month.
- 1
Start the smallest possible venture — something that could earn its first dollar within a month — and open a numbers page for it.
- 2
Take the seven-skill measure to baseline how clearly they communicate, because this path runs on it.
Sign up and the first conversation already knows the direction. The plan Cora builds is aimed at it from day one.
A path your child has not chosen will not survive the work. We build toward the direction you have in mind by getting your child genuinely interested in it — that is not a softer version of the goal, it is the only version that arrives.
And if they change direction at sixteen, the record survives it. Finishing things, building things, working with people — the evidence transfers.