Start Your First Business workbook cover, Comet Skills Juniors edition for grades 3 to 5

Start Your First Business - Juniors (Grades 3 to 5)

$14.00 CAD
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Start Your First Business workbook cover, Comet Skills Juniors edition for grades 3 to 5

Start Your First Business - Juniors (Grades 3 to 5)

$14.00 CAD

Ten parts that take your child from an annoying problem nobody has fixed to a business they can name, price and pitch out loud. Everything they need is in the book.

Who it is for

Grades 3 to 5. Especially good for children who are always inventing something and need a way to take one idea all the way to finished, or quieter children who benefit from a structured reason to explain their thinking.

The ten parts

  • Problems Are Everywhere Hunting for ten annoying things, because that is where every business starts
  • Choosing The One Scoring problems against three tests and committing to one
  • Who Is It For? Why everyone is not a customer, and drawing the one person who is
  • Making It Real Drawing the thing, labelling the parts, explaining how it works
  • What Does It Cost? Listing everything they would need, including their own time
  • Setting A Price The difference between what something costs and what it is worth
  • Name It And Brand It Ten names, four tests, and a logo they could draw from memory
  • Telling People Where the customer already is, and a poster that would stop them
  • Building The Pitch Six pieces, an opening line, and a practice tracker
  • Pitch Day Presenting to the family and taking real questions

How it works

No schedule and no start date. Each part takes about 45 minutes if done in one go. Some families do one a weekend, some do three in an afternoon and then nothing for a month.

Every part ends with an optional challenge to try out in the world: interview an adult, test a price on two people, show a drawing to somebody who has not heard the idea. They are the best bit, and they are not homework.

There is an adult note in every part telling you when to help and, more usefully, when to stay out of it.

The details

  • 47 pages, instant PDF download
  • Letter size, prints clearly in black and white
  • Works on a tablet with a stylus if you would rather not print
  • A pencil is the entire materials list
  • A one page business plan they fill in as they go, plus a certificate

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