What are some ideas for a teen business?

Always be on the lookout for ideas, because they can come from anywhere: your work experience, a hobby; your perceptions or experiences as a consumer, when an existing product or service doesn’t work as well as you think it should or when there is no product or service where you believe one should exist. Learn everything you can about the business you want to start and the marketplace in which you’ll be operating. That means getting work experience in and collecting information about your marketplace so that you know it inside and out. Make sure that your idea is so focused that you can express it clearly in fifty words or less. There is a world of ideas that you can turn into a business. You’re the best judge of what most appeals to you however. Businesses include: starting a production company for visual arts or music; starting a paper or journal to be circulated within your town, creating Web pages for companies, after-school writing workshops, editing papers, tutoring services, ...