Kid Founder: The Young Entrepreneur's Workbook

Most business books for kids explain what a business is. This one has them run one.By the last page of Kid Founder, your kid won't have read about entrepreneurship. They'll have done it — picked a real idea, tested it on real people, built the thing, named it, made the sale, and counted the money in the jar. A real customer said yes. And it's all there in their own handwriting.It's a write-in workbook, not a textbook. Nine phases walk a kid from "I don't know what I'd even sell" to a launched, paid-for, real little business — usually over six to eight weeks, at their own pace. Dream it. Test it. Plan it. Build it. Sell it. Count it. Every page either teaches one small thing or asks them to go do one small thing. No lectures. No worksheets that go nowhere.And it teaches the other skill school is skipping: how to actually work with AI.AI is going to be the most powerful tool of your kid's life, and nobody's teaching them to use it well. Kid Founder does. It's woven through every phase — AI helps them brainstorm, name the business, sharpen the pitch, run the numbers. But here's the rule the whole book runs on: AI is your helper. You are still the boss and the creator. They learn to ask a good question, judge whether the answer's any good, and keep what's useful. The durable skill — not the button-clicks.Worried about kids and AI? Good. So am I. That's exactly why every AI step in this book happens next to a parent, never instead of one — and why the kid stays the maker the whole way through. AI never makes the thing. Your kid does.By the end, your kid walks away with something real:A business idea they tested on actual peopleA name, a logo, a look, and a one-page planA real product made, a service practiced, or something createdA pitch, a flyer, and a sales log they filled in themselvesReal profit — and a plan for what to give, save, and spendA signed founder's certificate, and the proof they did the whole thingThere's a quiet thread underneath it all, too: the idea that being a builder is a good way to be made. It's light, never preachy — a family of any background gets a great business book; a faith-minded family will feel the why sitting underneath it.Kid Founder was written by Jamey Ice, a dad and serial entrepreneur in Fort Worth who built the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was nine. He built it for his own two daughters first, then proved it worked. (Fitting for a book about building with AI: it was built with AI, too — by a real person, not a bot.)Best for kids ages 8–12 who'd rather make something than be told about it. Grab one for the kid in your life who's always got an idea — and watch what they do with it.The free Founder's Kit (printable versions of the tools inside) is at kid-founder.com. Read more