Startup Junkie Hosting Teen Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Startup Junkie, in partnership with the Fayetteville Chamber, is hosting the fourth Teen Entrepreneur Boot Camp this week.
The week-long camp runs this week from Startup Junkie's offices on the Fayetteville square. It entails 16 area high-school students learning the ropes of entrepreneurship.
The boot camp has been a project of the Chamber for the past three years, and this year it's partnering with IA adviser Jeff Amerine's Startup Junkie.
Campers will hear from local entrepreneurs including IA clients Josh Moody of Overwatch and Douglas Hutchings of Picasolar (and AB's latest 40u40).
Here's more on the camp from the City Wire:
Instructional sessions will focus on marketing, management an operations, and financing a venture. The campers will hear presentations from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses.
Josh Moody, CEO of Overwatch, knows just how hard it is to start a company from the ground up. He founded Overwatch at 17 when he was a senior at Little Rock Catholic High School. Moody continues to work full-time on his venture, which was one of the ARK Challenge winners in 2013. Overwatch is still trying to bring its video gaming hardware to market later this year.
Picosolar CEO Douglas Hutchings is also on tap to speak to the budding entrepreneurs. Hutchings’ solar startup was recently named an Edison Award finalist for its hydrogen super emitter solar cell.