Starting one's own nonprofit/business as a high school student?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hello!

These questions are directed to any high schoolers who have started their own nonprofit/business or worked with someone else to start one.
How difficult is it to start a nonprofit/business (especially for someone who has had limited experiences in the field of business)?
Did you work with anyone else?
Is it worth it?
Do you think a sophomore student would be able to start a nonprofit/business?

If you guys have any other tips for starting a nonprofit/business it’d be great if you guys could provide some information below?
(Also I understand that instead of starting a nonprofit/business I could just work for one but I’d rather start my own!)

Thanks!!

2

A non-profit for what? A business selling what? Any entrepreneur or founder has a vision, or at least a goal. Your goal should not be just to have something on your resume.

3

I have a friend (rising senior) who just launched a pretty cool business selling duct tape wallets. Its actually something he’s being doing since elementary school (and I’ve had duct tape wallets since elementary school because of that) but he (and his brother who’s amazing at coding) make a professional website and are really doing marketing as an official business now. I think its going to succeed for a couple reasons:

  1. He already has a clientele and people who like his products
  2. He’s been doing this for years so he’s pretty good at it
  3. He didn’t start it for college applications, he started it because he genuinely liked doing it
4

It seems to me that you’re asking two very different questions; a non-profit is a very different venture from a business.

It looks, from the little you’ve provided, that your goal is simply to beef up a college application.

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This isn’t simply for me to beef up a college application. I’m just curious if anyone has done it as a high school student- if so, could you guys provide some tips?

6

I’m a senior in high school, started a social media-related business when I was a freshman. Find something you’re really good at, you really love to do, and then figure out a way to make money at it. For me, understanding how to market businesses effectively through social media was a skill of mine, so I heavily marketed it and slowly but surely signed on clients.

Never start a business in order to boost up a resume or application. If your interest and hustle are not 100% genuine, you’ll fail.