Founding a Start-up at 15 | A guide to being a student entrepreneur | SpectraVerse's Story | Part 1

Hey guys, welcome to my guide to starting up as a student! SO MANY OF YOU have asked me for all the things I learned and I couldn't be happier to finally share them in this three part series. High school entrepreneurship is an insanely helpful learning experience, and these videos encapsulate EVERYTHING I was I could find when I was your age.

This is the first part out of a three part series where I go in depth about my own organisation, SpectraVerse, and everything I've learned about creating your own non-profit, global organisation while still being a student in high school. These videos are going to be extensive and long, maybe a little tedious sometimes, but Im trying to put 3 years worth of student entrepreneurial lessons learned into 3 videos so like what the heck.

This video series will have 6 broad topics I will cover. Each video will go over 2 topics!

1. The Story behind SpectraVerse - How I came up with the idea and grew it as an organisation

2. The Planning Phase - Learn about the importance of interviewing, creating a business plan, how I came up with the name SpectraVerse, and Stakeholder mapping.

3. The Outreach Phase - Here we will discuss some of the key insights I had while reaching out to companies and NGOs as a student. We will discuss the benefits of millennial run start-ups, the unnecessary introduction of social media, and how you need to keep in mind the priorities of your stakeholders at all times.

4. Time Management as a Student - Here I will go into some of the key project management applications I used like Asana and Trello, and the communication applications I used like Slack. I will also discuss how I maintained a schedule with all of my school work and a few pieces of advice I have for student entrepreneurs.

5. The Expansion Phase - So you have an idea, and a working prototype. Now we will discuss how you take your organisation to the next level by finding like-minded peers and expanding to other cities and countries through the creation of "chapters".

6. The Pyramid of Student entrepreneurship - At this stage, I will discuss how you can verify and establish your presence as a student entrepreneur through awards, tangibles, media coverage, and prestigious summer programs.

If you would like a special additional topic to be discussed (like legal aspects) feel free to comment down below!

Attached below are a few resources I have found helpful along the way:

My close friend, Neil Ryan Dey, recently launched a blog on high school entrepreneurship called Student Upstarts. Here is the link for his page - https://studentupstart.com/

The one page business plan: https://100startup.com/resources/busi...

Summer programs I applied to for entrepreneurship:

1. LaunchX - https://launchx.com/
2. Yale Young Global Scholars - https://globalscholars.yale.edu/
3. https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu...
4. https://fisher.wharton.upenn.edu/mana...

A few awards (for Indians as well as internationals) that I researched and applied for:

1. Pradhan Mantri Bal Shakti Puraskar (The President of India's award for student excellence) - https://nca-wcd.nic.in/

2. United Nations V Awards for volunteering - https://vawards.in/about-v-awards/

3. Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards - https://www.spiritofcommunityindia.com/

4. The Diana Award - https://diana-award.org.uk/

5. The Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leaders Award - https://www.wearefamilyfoundation.org...