Just about every entrepreneur and small business owner that I’ve talked with has said that these entrepreneurial qualities manifested as early back as they can remember. What was your first entrepreneurial adventure?

Nate Whitehill started an online community of kids at the age of 12.  Ben Casnocha started his entrepreneurial career by selling pens and gumballs around his house as a child before becoming one of the youngest Silicon Valley CEO’s ever.

When I was 9, I found a little plastic cigar case on the ground and thought it would be a perfect container for a pencil.  With such an important pencil case, I felt I needed to do something important and started a newspaper.  With a staff of 2 other kids, we wrote stories about things like some eggs found at the local duck pond, recipes, and poems.  We got through about 4 issues before our hands were cramping from handwriting copies for all 9 of our subscribers and we petered out.

Later I found one of my mom’s Entrepreneur magazines on the table and became even more obsessed with the idea of starting businesses.  My mom fed my dream and allowed me to order a bunch of random trinkets from a company advertising in the back of the magazine after I went around school with a handmade order form collecting orders.

What about you? How did your entrepreneurial spirit manifest as a child?

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.  Zig Ziglar

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