Most courses about starting a business have your student read about somebody else's. This one ends with theirs.

Ten lessons, each a short reading, a worksheet that applies it immediately, a project, and an answer key written for you. The projects accumulate: three annoyances in Lesson 2 become a customer in Lesson 3, a business model in Lesson 4, a price in Lesson 5, a first version in Lesson 6, and a pitch in Lesson 10 that your student has to stand behind while somebody asks questions.

Lesson 3 is the one that saves the most grief — the number-one way businesses die is somebody spending months lovingly building what nobody wanted. Lesson 8 is the one nobody enjoys and everybody needs: looking a real person in the eye and talking about money.

Nobody has to sell anything. The whole course works as a design exercise on paper. If your student does want to trade for real, everything here supports it — but check your state's requirements first, because they vary.

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Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.