Press Release - For Release  January 16, 2003

TeachingKidsBusiness.com

Kids-As- Angel-Investors - Venture Capital  From Kids  For Kid's Business Initiatives.

Markham, Canada and Seattle Washington, USA, January 16, 2003

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TeachingKidsBusiness.com today announced its "Kids-As-Angel-Investors Program™" at www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/kids-as-angel-investors-program.htm 

All business people, entrepreneurs and kids can appreciate how difficult it is to fund a business start-up in the best of times.  The criteria is well known, with the depth of the management team being a very critical factor. Imagine if your management team consists of some kids or if the company is run by a kid. Yes, forget about traditional venture capital and bank financing.

Jeff M. Brown, Founder of TeachingKidsBusiness.com and KidsE-Marketplace.com has come up with a kids educational financing program that provides kids with  tips and  frameworks to raise seed capital for their business ventures in a www.kidse-marketplace.com and a way for kids to act like "Angel Investors."

After raising their own seed capital, with the help of www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/seed-captial-financing.htm , kids are given the opportunity to become a new breed of "Angel Investors" , to help fund an e-marketplace for their own business.   The kids, "our little angels", become financial angels to raise start-up funding for the online kids' marketplace and gain the experience of working with a new venture through seed, start-up and commercialization.

Brown explains, "I have never heard of a situation where kids are "Angels" in a financial context.  We have all used the term "what a little angel" at some point with kids. I thought it would be an interesting challenge to engage "Kids-As-Angel-Investors" in a business sense and create a valuable business experience and learning lesson."

Angels, in a traditional financing context,  are  wealthy investors and risk takers who are interested in private start-up and early stage business ventures. Kids-As-Angel-Investors are kids playing the "Angel Investor" role on a smaller scale but with the same principals. 

KidsE-Marketplace.com hopes to raise start-up funding without traditional loans or securities, but with a simple  start-up fund that pays unique returns in terms of education and experience for kids.  In addition,  the founding "Kids As  Angel-Investors" will have a preferred status as the venture goes forward with some interesting options. Yes, there will also be opportunity for real financial returns as everyone expects.

The "educational returns" will incorporate a communication program on the seed & start-up financing and commercialization stages delivered by e-mail updates and management involvement  through survey participation. The "experience returns" will be invaluable as kids begin to learn about business first hand while operating  in a low risk and positive business environment.

Brown hopes that the business community will not only be intrigued by this initiative, but that he will succeed in  elevating the awareness of the potential of kids in business and create additional business opportunities for kids. Brown also hopes that this program will be used as a business case to help teach kids about business.

Brown came up with the idea after coming to grips with the reality that venture capitalists would not take him seriously.  After hearing the phrase " they won't take me seriously because I'm a kid", from kids many times, the phrase took  on a  new meaning for Brown. It became the bases of his determination to commit to kids in a serious business way and to formulate this strategy.

Knowing that kids could relate to his problem, Brown has turned to kids to help finance www.kidse-marketplace.com and work with kids to create a kids marketing phenomena of "The Kids Launch" developing at www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/kidse-marketplace-the-kids-launch.htm 

The plan is to teach kids business by having them experience the funding of a business and the actual experience of creating a business in www.kidse-marketplace.com.  

Additional information on the Kids-As-Angels Program™ will be available through a  request for circulation on the "Kids' Red Herring List" at www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/kids-as-angels-list.htm

The social venture of TeachingKidsBusiness.com is developing to engage and inspire kids at an early age (8 and up) to develop confidence, experience,  business skills and explore career choices.  The website presents "tools", "experiences" and "community involvement" support in a safe, educational, non-pressure, non-commercial and fun way.

KidsE-Marketplace.com is the natural business step for kids to take.  KidsE-Marketplace.com  is a commercial venture that will provide kids with greater experience in actually taking their digital products to market and seeing them perform.  

For more information, go to the website at www.teachingkidsbusiness.com, and www.kidse-marketplace.com  e-mail us at: info@teachingkidsbusiness.com, or contact Jeff M. Brown directly, by phoning 905-830-9936.