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Are you a young entrepreneur? Kashin says: Would you like to feature in Perhaps you're making and marketing your own products to sell? Maybe you've thought up a business that offers a service to others? • How did you get started? • What does it involve? • What time do you put into your business and how much money do you make? • How do you advertise your product or service? • What kinds of things do you do to grow your business? ? If so, I'd love to hear from you for this section in Pinger Power featuring Kiwi kids who have started their own 'business'. Or maybe you just have a simple money-making tip that you'd like to share with other ! Tell me a bit about yourself and your business or money- making tip, and please include a photograph, if you can! WIN We'll pay you $100 if you feature as a TOP YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR. As a bonus we may also award $50 and $25 runners- up prizes, as well as contributors' prizes. Send in your contribution with the entry coupon from page 60 OR enter at the Friendship Club, www.upstartmag.co.nz. Entries close 31 March 2012. ENTREPRENEUR My name is Liam Coley and I make games for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. WINNER! My business name is Coley Inc. It started off with my love of gaming – I enjoyed video games so much that I decided to make my own. I joined online forums and slowly learnt how to make apps. I got What's an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is someone who starts or organises a business to meet consumers' needs and wants. Consumers are people, like you and I, who buy goods and services as part of our everyday living. Entrepreneurs have lots of 'get up and go', called motivation! They aren't scared to take risks and work hard to be successful. Entrepreneurs are usually very creative and enjoy planning, organising, and leading. Are YOU an entrepreneur? out books from the library to help me along too. I learnt how to make 3D objects in Blender, paint in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP, for short) and code in C#, which is a programming language. After about six months, my first game is nearly ready to be released. I put as much time into my business as possible and when I can't work on my app, I dream up ideas for new games. I have about 18 game concepts to develop. I am planning to advertise my games on websites. Eventually I will advertise my app with ads inside other apps. To grow my business I put money into it to purchase new things, like artwork, sound etc, for my other apps – LIAM COLEY, 10, Rototuna Primary School, Hamilton TOP YOUNG As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big – Donald Trump www.upstartmag.co.nz 27 Up s t ar t Magazine Up s t ar t er s Up s t ar t CASH! $100