Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Teens
Ages 14–17 · 4 Days · 2 Weeks

Your child's first step to
building something real.

A hands-on entrepreneurship bootcamp where teens go from idea to pitch — using the same AI tools professionals use today.

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Duration4 days
Schedule2 days/week · 2 weeks
Time12pm – 4pm
Age group14–17 years old
Group sizeSmall cohort

"I can start something. It's within my grasp."

That's the belief every participant walks away with. Not just theory — they build, pitch, and hear real feedback from real people. Four days is all it takes to change how they see themselves.

What happens each day
Day 1

Find your idea

  • Map strengths + form teams AI
  • Spot problems worth solving
  • Generate 10 ideas in 2 mins AI
  • Commit to one out loud
Day 2

Reality check

  • Is it a real problem?
  • Will people pay for it?
  • AI plays devil's advocate AI
  • Pitch to mentors. Get sharpened.
Day 3

Build something real

  • Write the problem in one line
  • Build a live landing page
  • AI sharpens the copy AI
  • Present to the room
Day 4

Demo day

  • Rehearse pitch with AI AI
  • Present to live audience
  • Audience votes with tokens
  • Debrief: what did you learn?
Tools they'll use
🤖
Claude / ChatGPT
Brainstorm, pressure-test, refine copy
🌐
Carrd
Build a real landing page, no code
📋
Google Forms
Collect interest and responses
💬
WhatsApp / Telegram
Simple customer communication

These are the same tools used by real entrepreneurs and professionals today — not toy exercises.

What they walk away with

A real idea they developed themselves

Not assigned. Not suggested. Something they found, tested, and chose to stand behind.

A live landing page they built

A real URL. Their words. Their solution. Something they can show anyone.

Experience pitching under pressure

They'll be challenged, refined, and heard — by peers, mentors, and a live audience.

The confidence to start

The most important outcome. Four small wins that add up to one big belief.

This is for your child if...
They have opinionsThey notice what's broken and wonder why nobody fixed it
They're curiousThey like figuring things out more than being told answers
No experience neededNo business background. Just willingness to think and try.
Your master trainer
Amin Nordin
Entrepreneur · M&A Advisor · Mentor

Amin has spent over a decade building, advising, and exiting businesses across Southeast Asia. He mentors founders under Ntuitive, Founder Institute, and Khazanah Institute — and has worked with startups ranging from early-stage ideas to multi-million dollar exits. He built this bootcamp the same way he builds companies: by cutting out what doesn't matter and doubling down on what does.

M&A Advisory Startup Mentorship AI Tools Southeast Asia Founder Institute Khazanah Institute

4 days. One belief shift.

Cohort sizes are small. Spots fill up fast.

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Full program breakdown
Day 1 Find your idea

Goal: They leave with an idea they're genuinely excited about.

Icebreaker — What annoys you?
Pick one thing in your daily life that frustrates you. Write it down. Share with the group. No filter.
Strengths mapping
Each person answers: what do people always ask you for help with? That's a proxy for strength.
🤖 Use Claude or ChatGPT to help articulate their strengths — they describe themselves, AI helps them find the pattern.
Team formation
Pair based on complementary strengths. Facilitated, not self-selected.
Idea generation
From the annoyances list — which ones could be solved? Which ones match what your team is good at?
🤖 Use AI to brainstorm 10 variations of their idea in 2 minutes. They pick, refine, make it their own.
Commitment moment
Each team stands up and says their idea in one sentence to the room. This makes it real.
🤖 AI helps them write that one sentence cleanly before they say it out loud.
Day 2 Reality check

Goal: They think like problem-solvers, not dreamers. And they survive the discomfort.

The three questions
  • Is this actually a problem, or just an inconvenience?
  • Would someone pay for a solution?
  • Are there enough people with this problem?
Team works through their own idea
Structured worksheet. Forces them to answer honestly.
🤖 Use AI as a devil's advocate — prompt it to poke holes in their idea. Teaches them to pressure-test with a thinking partner.
Peer pressure test
Teams present to each other. Other teams ask hard questions. Not mentors yet — peers first. Less intimidating, still real.
Mentor breakdown
Mentors come in. Ask the same hard questions. Teams defend their thinking. Mentors aren't there to kill ideas — they're there to sharpen them.
Refine before they leave
15 minutes at the end. Teams update their idea based on what they heard. They don't go home stuck.
🤖 Use AI to help rewrite their idea summary based on the feedback they just received. Fast iteration.
Day 3 Build something real

Goal: Something exists that didn't exist before. They made it.

What is a landing page?
Quick demo. Show them examples. Simple ones. The job of a landing page: explain the problem, offer the solution, get a response.
🛠️ Tool: Carrd or Notion. Show them a live build in under 5 minutes.
Write before you build
Before touching any tool — write three things: the problem in one sentence, the solution in one sentence, who it's for in one sentence. This is the hardest part. Give them time.
🤖 Use AI to help sharpen the copy. They write the draft, AI improves it, they edit it back to their voice.
Build the page
One hour. Headline, problem, solution, a button. Keep it simple.
🛠️ Tool: Carrd. Simple, no-code, looks real.
Simple tools orientation
🛠️ Google Forms — collect interest from potential customers.
🛠️ WhatsApp or Telegram — follow up with responses.
Present the page to the room
Not a pitch yet. Just show it. Get one piece of feedback per team. Fix it on the spot if they can.
🤖 Use AI to suggest one improvement to their headline based on the feedback.
Day 4 Demo day

Goal: Real humans reacted to something they built. That memory stays.

Morning — Final prep
Tighten the pitch. One team member leads, others support. Assign roles. Practice twice.
🤖 Use AI to rehearse — they pitch to Claude, Claude plays a skeptical investor, gives feedback. They refine.
Pitch structure
  • The problem — make them feel it
  • Who has this problem
  • Your solution
  • Why your team can solve it
  • What you're asking for (feedback, not money)
🤖 AI helps write and tighten the pitch script the morning of.
The demo
Present to a real audience — older students, teachers, parents. Real people who weren't part of the process.
Audience responds with tokens
Each audience member gets 3 tokens. They allocate to ideas they'd actually use or pay for. Not the best presenter — the best idea. This is the market signal.
Debrief — the most important part
Don't end on the token count. End on this question to every team: "What do you know now that you didn't know 4 days ago?" That's where the belief gets named out loud by them, not by you.
🤖 Optional closer: each student asks AI to write a one-paragraph summary of what they built and what they learned. They keep it. Tangible proof they made something.
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