As you might know, business is a major element of our lives. What you eat, you wear, and what you play with are all produced and sold by businesses. Most people work in businesses to make a living. Knowing how to do it well as soon as possible is more than useful. Despite that, there is surprisingly low attention given to it in most of the middle and high schools. As a result young people arrive to “Life” unprepared. Also, there is a growing concern about global issues (such as climate change and unemployment). It appears to me that these are strongly connected to how businesses operate. I think, as a member of the next generation, it is up to us to do business in a responsible manner. So I founded a business club at my school.



I invited accomplished people from businesses to share their insights, tap into their wisdom, and start to develop my peers’ and my own business acumen. It went really well, it was immediately oversubscribed. We started our weekly sessions in January. We discussed basic business topics (eg. marketing, accounting). Our guests were leaders in different areas of business: we had a partner from a big five consulting firm, CEOs and directors from well-known companies and successful entrepreneurs. The club’s entrepreneurial project was sponsored by a leader of its segment and the project teams were advancing well with their business project. Then came COVID-19.



My school was closed, as many schools around the world were, and our business club with it… Based on the success of the business club initiative I decided to continue: I started Businesscool.org, an online business school for teens, because I honestly think, that business is not only cool, but also a determining component of our future. In the Businesscool we created a really unique opportunity to spend two weeks of the summer vacation doing something highly meaningful that is also exciting, engaging, and fun. The program started at the end of June, and it was a huge success. We had business leaders come to talk to us in the program almost every day. We implemented everything we learned from our guests into creating our own brand of water, which we were able to pitch to a venture capitalist who actually gives loans to small and medium-sized businesses.



Being successful in business is not a question of talent. It is the question of learning and applying the right skills and knowledge. Like with anything else you can learn, the earlier you start the better you will become. The Businesscool allows teens to use this to their advantage, in an exciting, engaging, and fun manner. To learn more about the program, and to know about events in the future go to businesscool.org