Making a Splash – and a Profit – as a Kid Entrepreneur

This is part three of a three-part series on youth entrepreneurship. You can read part one here and part two here. Two weeks ago, we championed the news of entrepreneurship’s rise with a rallying cry to launch a business of … read more

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Finding Funding for a Kid-Led Venture

This is part two of a three-part series on youth entrepreneurship. You can read part one here. Last week on this very platform, we heralded the notable news – that last year was one of the very best on record … read more

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Entrepreneurship is peaking. Ready to take the plunge?

Let’s face it: stats calculating…anything…from the last two years haven’t given us much to celebrate. But today, we’re throwing confetti over a truly awesome development just declared in Inc. Magazine. Ready for the inspiring news? Here it is: 2022 was … read more

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All About Love (and Money)

It doesn’t take a sleuth to detect the theme of the month. Candy hearts, red foiled greeting cards, and shimmering boxes of chocolates have replaced stores’ holiday season clearance sections with haste. Valentine’s Day is approaching, and the month of … read more

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Bringing Back Budgeting

What memories or emotions does the word “budget” bring to your mind? Perhaps it’s a childhood memory about buying clothes – or not buying clothes – for the new school year. Perhaps it’s recent headlines about the government’s inability to … read more

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Why Financial Basics > Financial Fads

If you’d listened to the financial “wisdom” of the pundits on social media over the last couple of years, you’d have been in for one heck of a roller coaster ride. If you happened to get lucky with regards to … read more

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Three keys for growing your dough in 2023

Take a quick survey of the 2023 New Year’s resolutions of close friends and family, and two words are likely to bubble to the surface: more and less. “I want to look at my phone less this year.” “I want … read more

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Just received a new gadget? Fill it with profitable fun.

Word from the North Pole is that this was a big year for screens of all varieties — new smartphones, TVs, and computers had Santa’s sleigh quite loaded down last week. Our take? Nothing could be better — if you … read more

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Hacking Holiday Break (for Profit!)

Cookies are becoming a regular fixture on kitchen counters, the bottom of the tree is filling up, and hints are being dropped left and right. It can all mean only one thing: the holidays are upon us. As with every … read more

“If it sounds too good to be true…”

Yesterday, a man recently touted as the “JP Morgan of crypto” was led into a police car in the Bahamas. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency platform FTX, was arrested after the sudden collapse of his company and the yet-to-be-determined … read more

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The 2022 Biz Kid$ Holiday Gift Guide

Last week, as turkey leftovers filled the fridge and holiday decorations filled the mantlepiece, kids and teens began filling notepads both analog and digital with hints, links, and downright demands of what they hope to see under the tree. Following … read more

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Putting Thanks (and Giving) in Thanksgiving

Today, sofas across America will be filled with grandpas, aunts, moms, and dads fast asleep in tryptophan-induced comas. American Thanksgiving is almost gleefully a time of consumption. We travel an average of 214 miles to eat an average of 3000 calories before shopping our … read more