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We are all given some form of talent and there's a way to make money using your
talent. So Summer Company
allowed me to put all my ideas together put into a business plan and get started.
I see the biggest skill that I've developed is
interacting with clients. I am a very reserved
person coming into the program and it really gave me confidence to put myself
out there
as opposed to if I were a home, you know, doing the same old part-time job,
I would just go with the flow everything. But as a business owner,
it really encourages you to go out there,
make yourself a person that people would want to work with.
We provide
training, mentoring, and an award of up to three thousand dollars to cover
their start-up costs.
The mentors have a really important role with summer company. They demonstrate
to the student that entrepreneurship
is achievable and they coach them throughout the summer.
There were a group of students that were in the program that were amazing. They're all
really ambious and wanted to succeed. you see when they began, they thought
"how am I going to do,
what is my focus for the business",
and progressing through, if solidified, who their target market is,
where gonna focus, and now it's how do you market towards that target market,
what kind of strategies should we be using, should be on
social media, should we be going door-to-door,
should we be sending emails to companies that could partner with us.
I thought why don't I take the mobile element of the delivery
and combine it with a car wash and I went to
to get my pen to paper I wrote it down I figured out how do I make it
least cost, and most profit,
and also provide a service that helps the community.
The mentor was awesome. It was a great
way to get experience from someone who has done something similar
and that's priceless. You can't pay for anything like that.
So seeing them from
just brainstorming to a finished product that they can extend
going to, maybe, the next year if they are going to continue with their business.
Summer Company has helped them
get a catapult into entrepreneurism.
So maybe in the future, I might have a part time job or freelance for a company,
but at the end of the day, I will definitely be an entrepreneur.
Always.