Raising Entrepreneurs

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Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Yaro Starak, one of the young rising stars of the blogosphere. He shared with us his journey from early ventures in his primary school years, selling used computer games through the Trading Post, to his current lucrative blogging business.

You can listen to the whole interview in our Hall of Fame, but the stand-out advice Yaro had for young entrepreneurs was the following:

1. Start something. If you don’t put something out there then you never get a result, either good or bad.
2. Have some consistency and persistence. The biggest reason why most people never get the outcome they want is they don’t do it for long enough and hard enough.
3. Education is pretty key as well. I like education through case studies. I like to experience the way other people are doing things and what kind of results they’re getting and then take what I like about what they do and apply that to what I do. So always be learning.

Yaro also had some great points to make about parenting, and the influence parents can have on young entrepreneurs. In particular, the power of a supportive parent, even during the teen years, when it can seem that the last things your kids want is your approval.

My mother has always been a little bit… going against the grain in certain veins, so she was very supportive of whatever I wanted to do as long as it was what I want to do. She didn’t want me to get a job if I don’t want to get a job. And that sort of support would certainly help a teenager if that’s the path they want to take … If I’d had both my mother and my father constantly telling me to go get a job … I may have gone and got a job and been miserable.

And the blogosphere would have been the poorer for it! You can see Yaro’s blog at www.entrepreneurs-journey.com.