The young entrepreneur program built on the same business development system that drives real income for adults. For grades 9 through 12.
High school students spend four years learning subjects that prepare them for a world that is already changing beneath their feet. Nobody teaches them how to identify their talent, build something real, and create income on their own terms.
The new economy is not waiting for them to graduate. It is already here. The students who understand it now will operate at a completely different level than everyone else.
The same platforms, tools, and business development principles that work for adults work for a 16-year-old with a skill, an idea, and the system to execute it.
Junior Achievement is noble. Business class is a start. But neither teaches students how to actually build pipeline, identify opportunity, and close. That is what 1099 Teens does.
Most students have been taught to apply, wait, and hope. The 1099 mindset flips that. You build. You deliver. You execute. That applies whether you are 17 or 47.
1099 Teens is not a club. It is not an after-school activity. It is not a simulation. It is the real 1099 Nation business development system, taught in language high school students can immediately apply to their interests, their talents, and their world.
The same system that has driven income for thousands of solopreneurs, delivered in a format built specifically for grades 9 through 12. Every lesson connects directly to something a student can act on before they leave the building.
Students learn to look at their interests, skills, and obsessions differently. Not as hobbies. As assets. The first step in building anything is knowing what you actually bring to the table.
Business development is not just for adults in suits. It is the system any person uses to grow, open new doors, and make money. Students learn that system from the ground up.
The goal is not a presentation or a grade. The goal is real-world execution. Students leave with a working understanding of how to take what they know and turn it into income.
Built from the same system behind the 1099 MBA, adapted for the high school classroom. Every module connects business development principles to real-world decisions students face right now.
The shift from guaranteed employment to independent operation is the defining economic shift of this era. Students learn what it means, why it is accelerating, and how understanding it now puts them years ahead of their peers.
Students learn to identify what comes naturally to them, what they obsess over, and how to look at external feedback without internalizing it. Talent is hardware. Skill is software. This module teaches students to locate both.
Most people miss real opportunity because they do not know what it looks like. Students learn the three signals every real opportunity reveals so they can act while everyone else is still figuring out what happened.
Business development is the system any business uses to grow, open new doors, and make more money. Students learn the real definition, the real system, and why it applies whether they are 17 or 47.
How you communicate determines what doors open. Students learn how to present themselves, convey value, and create real relationships that lead to real outcomes, not just a handshake and a business card.
Every student leaves with a personal business development plan built around their specific talent, interest, and goals. Not a hypothetical. A real starting point they can execute the day they walk out the door.
They have been sketching it out in their notebook for months. They just do not have the system to turn it into something real. This program gives them that system.
Most students are not stuck because they are not smart. They are stuck because no one has shown them how to find what they are actually good at. Module two exists specifically for them.
They are going. That is fine. But the students who understand business development going in will outperform their peers from day one. This program is not anti-college. It is pro-preparation.
The traditional path was never the only path. The 1099 economy is built for exactly this student. Give them the system and get out of the way.
Their talent is already evident. What is missing is the business development layer that turns that talent into an asset that generates real income for the rest of their life.
Wait until college. Wait until you graduate. Wait until you have experience. The new economy does not wait. Neither should they.
Greg Jones is the founder of 1099 Nation, a business development operator with 25 years of real-world experience at every level from early startups to Fortune 100. Top 1% sales producer. Manager who shows not tells.
He has delivered more than 1,000 talks and presentations across boardrooms, classrooms, and stages over 25 years. Teaching young people how the new economy works and how to operate inside it is not a side project. It is part of the mission that drives everything 1099 Nation builds.
The students who understand business development before they leave high school will not just be ahead. They will be operating in a completely different category.
"The new economy is removing age as a barrier to building a successful business. The question is not whether your students can build something real. The question is whether anyone is going to teach them how."Greg Jones | Founder, 1099 Nation
If you are an educator, administrator, or organization that works with high school students and you want to bring the 1099 Teens program to your school or event, the conversation starts with one email.
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