Teen Entrepreneurs To Come Together With Influential U.S. Business Leaders For The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation's Young Entrepreneurial Challenge
(PRWEB) August 14, 2008 -- Mark Victor Hansen, best-selling author and one of today's most well-known authorities in the area of human potential, today announced the first Young Entrepreneurial Challenge for teens through his recently launched Mark Victor Hansen Foundation. The 2008 competition will run from August 15, 2008 to December 15, 2008. A formal awards ceremony presenting the winners will be held during the annual Soul Motion Ball-Rockin' The Universe gala event at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, located in Southern California on January 31, 2009. Entry information can be found at www.markvictorhansenfoundation.org.
The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation was established to create a lasting and impactful difference by providing literacy to end poverty, and creating opportunities for citizens throughout the world in three priority areas: entrepreneurship, education, and empowerment.
"Through the Foundation, I hope to engage young entrepreneurs throughout the United States to learn and grow through executive and peer-to-peer education, providing tools to support business development," says Hansen. "Our goal is to share with these teens the knowledge and tools it takes to turn dreams into reality, and to cultivate the natural entrepreneur that exists in all."
The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation created The Young Entrepreneurial Challenge with a goal of building the foremost entrepreneurial competition for teenagers throughout the United States. The competition is open to teens thirteen to nineteen. Applicants must be the proposed principle owner of a business or corporation, or the existing owner or president of a business or corporation.
The Young Entrepreneurial Challenge will feature two categories. The first focused toward teenagers who have developed and are managing an existing business. The second focused toward teenagers who are interested in developing a new business and are willing to put their new business ideas to the test. These two categories are further divided into three sub-categories: Enlightened Technologies--innovative products that define a segment of a new market, or transform an existing one; Positive Social Impact--creating a business that would affect the environment positively, promote peace, decrease poverty or promote social justice; Global Market Potential--a business best suited to global markets.
An influential network of some of the nation's most influential business leaders will embrace student entrepreneurship and support teen participants throughout the challenge with scheduled tele-conferencing sessions. Tele-conferences will cover the areas of: protecting intellectual property, being a founder, creating a winning team, smart marketing, and going global.
About the Mark Victor Hansen Foundation
The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation (www.markvictorhansenfoundation.org) was established to help end global poverty through entrepreneurial literacy, education, and empowerment. The Foundation strives to challenge the world to bring high-level attention to the vision of ending poverty and creating global economic growth. Through programs such as the Young Entrepreneurial Challenge and Micro-Finance programs, the Foundation will work to ensure a steady stream of entrepreneurial activity, enhancing the ability for self-sustaining global economic growth.
For over 30 years, Mark Victor Hansen has created change for people around the world by reshaping their vision of what's possible. Having spoken in more than 60 countries, Mark has shared his message of opportunity and action, and created powerful transformation in thousands of organizations and millions of individuals worldwide.
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