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TechDev Academy

A Silicon Valley-based Startup Company founded by young entrepreneurs and professionals from different backgrounds including education, IT, science, business administration, and marketing in 2019.

Learning Resources for Teen Entrepreneurs

Learning Resources for Teen Entrepreneurs

Embarking on the journey of entrepreneurship as a teenager can be both exciting and difficult. Transforming ideas into ventures often means facing unknowns and exploring unfamiliar terrain, while being driven by passion alone might not guarantee your success. Here we discuss learning resources for teen entrepreneurs. Through this practical guide, we shed light on how experienced guides can guide teen entrepreneurs safely along their entrepreneurial journeys.

 

Learning From Prominent Figures

Teenpreneurs can learn from prominent entrepreneurs. Individuals such as Steve Jobs and Richard Branson offer valuable guidance. 

 

Jobs is best known as the visionary behind Apple, demonstrating its impact of innovation on business; Branson combined creativity and technology to design solutions tailored specifically for target audiences while his dedication to innovation exemplified the value of diversifying investments across multiple fields. 

 

Following in their footsteps can provide invaluable assistance with adopting design thinking techniques quickly or adapting quickly to changes within an ever-evolving business environment – their experiences showcase that entrepreneurship is a journey where past experiences shed light onto current endeavors!

 

Wisdom gained over time is invaluable for entrepreneurs seeking to unlock their full potential in business.

 

Utilizing Online Mentors

Start-up business owners may benefit from reading blogs and articles to grasp essential business concepts like branding, customer segmentation, and market research. Furthermore, investing in courses taught by industry veterans provides invaluable insight into financial management and marketing strategies.

 

Another one of the learning resources for teen entrepreneurs is the online training model. This virtual approach connects students to mentors and peers from around the globe who provide insights that broaden their understanding of global markets.

 

Online entrepreneurship bootcamps led by mentors offer students a competitive advantage in getting into the business realm. By arming them with the tools they need to overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities, mentors serve as guides for their mentees.

 

Finding Local Mentors; Tapping into Wisdom Nearby

In our fast-paced society, it can be easy to overlook the treasures of local entrepreneurship. Engaging with business leaders within your community offers unique perspectives not available in textbooks. Engaging with these local business leaders provides access to insights tailored specifically for your area that give an edge in understanding how businesses operate and market dynamics play out; their knowledge gives an advantage that cannot be gained elsewhere.

 

Mentorship remains powerful in today’s world, as its benefits remain undeniable. Hearing mentors’ stories of triumphs and challenges can be truly transformative; their anecdotes, insights into the market, and practical advice can prove invaluable.

 

Mentorship requires building meaningful relationships with mentors who truly understand your local environment and culture. Mentors play an integral part in supporting an ecosystem within your community to foster wisdom and foster long-term success.

 

Learning Through Experience; Apprenticeship under Entrepreneurs

Apprenticing under experienced entrepreneurs provides an excellent way to gain practical business knowledge and experience. Learning from established leaders allows you to gain invaluable insights that simply cannot be replicated in textbooks.

 

By watching entrepreneurs at work, you can expand your skill set beyond what textbooks can provide. This comprehensive education will not only prepare you to start a business but to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset as a lifestyle choice.

 

Hands-on experience often is the link between theory and achievement – so apprenticing under experienced entrepreneurs equips you with tools, valuable insight, and the right attitude needed for navigating this challenging but rewarding path of entrepreneurship.

 

Different Types of Mentors That Teenpreneurs Can Leverage

There are various kinds of mentors that aspiring teenpreneurs can utilize as they navigate toward success in business. Each mentor brings different insights that shape your growth in unique ways.

 

Theory-Based Mentors

Imagine learning from academicians specializing in organizational principles and theories related to entrepreneurship, with their teachings grounded in research-backed frameworks and enhanced by real-world case studies.

Though they lack hands-on experience, theoretical courses provide invaluable training that can hone both strategic thinking and decision-making skills.

 

Experience-Based Mentors

For guidance, seek mentors who have had close ties to entrepreneurs. Such individuals possess insight derived from real-world observations – even if they didn’t start their venture themselves, working alongside business leaders gives them an in-depth knowledge of how businesses function.

 

Action-Based Mentors

An alternative set of mentors that should be considered is made up of entrepreneurs who have dealt with and overcome similar challenges before eventually finding success. Their advice draws from their own experience while offering proven strategies for reaching goals. Gaining knowledge from their journey can provide insights into making informed decisions while managing the highs and lows associated with being an entrepreneur more successfully.

 

Final Thoughts

In this article, we talked about some learning resources for teen entrepreneurs. If you’d like to increase your knowledge in this field, you should get in touch with the best resources.

Finding mentors is an art. A successful mentoring journey may involve selecting mentors with theory-based experience as well as application-based knowledge to round out your knowledge base and enrich the journey with insight and confidence. By accepting perspectives you will navigate entrepreneurship successfully while expanding your skill set.

 

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JOHN H. FALK

Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University

 

Dr. John H. Falk is Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University. He is a leading expert on free-choice learning; the learning that occurs when people have significant choice and control over what, where, and when they learn.

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CHRISTINE CUNNINGHAM

Professor of Practice of Education and Engineering at Penn State University

 

Dr. Christine Cunningham is a Professor of Practice of Education and Engineering at Penn State University. Her work focuses on making engineering more relevant, accessible, and inclusive, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. She does this by creating researched-based engineering curricula for PreK-8 children and their educators. Her book, Engineering in Elementary STEM Education, describes her groundbreaking work. Previously, Cunningham was the Founding Director of Engineering is Elementary. Cunningham has received a number of awards; in 2017 her work was recognized with the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education.

 

CHRIS ROGERS

Chris Rogers Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University

 

His research interests are:

Engineering Education, Robotics, and Musical Instrument Design

 

Education

Ph., D Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Biography

Chris Rogers earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where he worked with Professor John Eaton on his thesis on particle motion in a boundary layer flow. Rogers joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering in 1989. He is involved in a number of research areas, including particle-laden flows (a continuation of his thesis), telerobotics and controls, the slurry flows in chemical-mechanical planarization, the engineering of musical instruments, measuring flame shapes of couch fires, measuring fruit-fly locomotion, and engineering education (kindergarten to college). At Tufts, Rogers has exercised his strong commitment to teaching by exploring a number of new directions, including teaching robotics with LEGO bricks and teaching manufacturing by building musical instruments. His teaching work extends to the elementary school level, where he talks with over 1,000 teachers around the world every year on methods of introducing young children to engineering.

 

RumeysaDogan

RUMEYSA DOGAN

Co-founder and COO at TechDev Academy

  • Graduated from top-ranked business school with high honor
  • Worked in top global companies as Vodafone, Benetton Group, etc
  • Experienced in Product Management and Digital Marketing Analytics
  • Managed Entrepreneurship Club and mentored several entrepreneurs

 

 

ismail-marulcu

ISMAIL MARULCU

Co-founder & Chief Education Officer at TechDev Academy

  • Educator and Researcher since 2001
  • M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College
  • Ph.D. in STEM Education from Boston College
  • Mentored more than 100 pre-service teachers, college students, and high school students

 

 

PaolaGomez

PAOLA G. GONZALES

Mentor & Educator

  • over 2,000 hours mentoring students and 4 years of teaching experience
  • spearheaded a nonprofit organization that provides mentorship to underrepresented students at the UC, Davis
  • an active member of the Surfrider Foundation

 

 

AyushKanodia

AYUSH KANODIA

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at Stanford

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at Stanford Uni.
  • Worked as a software engineer for Google
  • Expert in the intersection of Computer Science and Economics.

 

 

KairatSabyrov

KAIRAT SABYROV

Ph.D., Data Scientist

  • B.S. in chemistry and physics
  • Ph.D. In physical chemistry
  • Data science instructor at Lambda School
  • Worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab at the UC, Berkeley

 

 

BAHRUDIN TRBALIC

Ph.D., Candidate at Stanford University

  • Studied Physics & Electrical Engineering at MIT.
  • Worked at MIT as a Medical Data Analyst and Product Developer.
  • The founder and lead developer of Expert Experiments.
  • Received the 2023 Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship and 2022 NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis Award.
  • Spearheaded STEM camps across Europe and Asia.
  • He has been mentoring students for years.

 

 

SHASHA ANRONIKOV

Researcher at Stanford University

  • Recent honors graduate from Cornell University with a major in biological sciences and a minor in business at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
  • Currently working at Stanford University in the Nolan Lab to conduct immunopathology research.

 

 

LISA WANG

BSc Harvard University Graduate

  • Studied Environmental Science and Engineering.
  • Cross-registered to Harvard Univ. and MIT.
  • An advisor to the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group.
  • Co-founder of Coolant, a company that builds software to unlock nature-based carbon markets.

 

 

SEMI HASAJ

MBA Data Scientist at C3 AI

  • Studied Data Science while obtaining his Master's of Business Analytics at MIT.
  • Studied Space Engineering in Toronto, Canada where he grew up.
  • He has spent years tutoring others because he loves to help people learn and grow.

 

 

SAMY AWWAD

Junior at Stanford University

  • Studying Symbolic Systems with a focus on Neurosciences and plans to be a medical doctor.
  • Founded ImmuniGlobal, a national nonprofit in vaccine education, and he was featured in Healthline magazine.
  • A published researcher in PubMed.
  • Honored by the CDC as a Flu Fighter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Enthusiastic about empowering young changemakers.

 

 

HASAN TUNCER

Ph.D., Product Manager at Cruise

  • BSc. in Computer Science at Koc University, Istanbul.
  • Ph.D. in Computing and Information Scienves at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
  • Worked as a software engineering at Wall Street.
  • Product Manager for Cloud Services (at IBM Silicon Valley Lab), autonomous vehicles (at NIO, aka Chinese Tesla, Uber ATG, Aurora and Cruise)

 

 

RayYucel

RAY YUCEL

Ph.D., Data Scientist in Magnimind Inc.

  • B.S in Materials Engineering
  • M.Sc in Management
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
  • Data scientist at Magnimind Inc.
  • Employs deep learning in finance and health care data

 

 

SofoklisGoulas

SOFOKLIS GOULAS

Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

  • Senior research associate, Stanford Uni.
  • The use of data science and machine learning in economics
  • M.Sc. in finance and economics, Warwick business school
  • MS and a Ph.D. in economics, the Uni. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Worked at the Uni. of North Carolina and at the Bank of Greece

 

 

EnricoSantus

ENRICO SANTUS

Senior Data Scientist at Bayer

  • Senior data scientist at Bayer
  • Postdoc at MIT, in the group of Regina Barzilay
  • Experience in NLP in Oncology, Cardiology and Palliative Care
  • Experience in Fake News Detection, Sentiment Analysis, and Lexical Semantics.
  • Invited to talk at the White House

 

 

EMILY HALFORD

Data Analyst

  • Data analyst working in psychiatric epidemiology
  • Data Science&Mental Health Expert with the BBN Times
  • Master of Public Health, Columbia Uni.

 

 

RyanSpitler

RYAN SPITLER

Ph.D., Co-Founder and Deputy Director of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND) at Stanford University

  • Faculty Member, Standford Uni.
  • Founding Partner at Boutique Venture Partners
  • B.S. in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UC, Santa Cruz
  • Ph.D. In Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC, Irvine

 

 

muratbaday

MURAT BADAY

Scientist at Stanford Uni, Founder & CEO at TechDev Academy

  • Co-founder of Smartlens, Magnimind, Wowso, Nanosight
  • M.S. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Biophysics from the Uni. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Mentored and tutored over 100 high school students
  • Developed novel ideas and has over 8 patents

 

 

GyunelRashidova

GYUNEL RASHIDOVA

B.S. in Biological Sciences,
Research assistant at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation

  • iGEM alumni, received Gold Medal among 250 teams
  • Fellowship holder from Women in Tech international organization
  • Founder of social projects:
    “OncoSense” - fabrication of device for the detection of cancer biomarkers;
    “RemiSee” - promotion of a colorblind-friendly educational platform
  • AIESEC alumni, organized case competitions with over 300 participants
  • Organized iGEM Biohackathon and Summer Camp for high-school and university students to apply coding for solving real case studies

 

 

SoudehYaghouti

SOUDEH YAGHOUTI

Ph.D., Data Scientist at Megalab, Silicon Valley

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
  • More than 4 years of experience in data-driven research on electrical network systems.
  • Collaborating with TechDev Academy for several years and taught students data analysis projects.
  • Collaborated with Stanford scientists on projects that aimed to automate medical diagnosis of diseases with the help of image processing techniques and AI.

 

 

AIZHAN IBRAYEVA

MSc Researcher at Stanford University

  • MS. Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University.
  • Did research at Stanford University, Aerospace Science Lab (Purdue), Rarefied Gas Dynamics Lab (Purdue)
  • Worked on projects supported by NASA.
  • Worked as Engineer at Silicon Valley Startup companies.
  • Mentored Students from top US school

 

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Mon-Fri 2 hours of daily instruction and 2 hours of self-paced project development.

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