Teen Entrepreneurs Learn to Embrace Failure. Can Adults?Grownup founders can learn plenty from their teenage counterparts.
This story appears in theJune 2019issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
Koby Wheeler haslaunchedand crashed three businesses. But he's not embarrassed by any of it. "It gives me more confidence," he says, "because I have those experiences. I know to ask better questions, I know to trust my gut, and I have a more long-term way of thinking."
It's a good perspective to have at any age -- and in Wheeler's case, he's starting young. He's a freshman at the University of Texas at Dallas. His first three businesses failed while he was in high school. And he attributes his thick skin to a program he completed prior to graduation: It's calledWhatever It Takes(WIT), a San Diego–based program that helps high schoolers ideate and launch businesses for college credit, and it puts a heavy emphasis on learning to celebrate their failures.
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