8th-Grader Proves You’re Never Too Young To Start A Company – MeritBooster

When you’re 13-years-old, need money and can’t legally get a job, what do you do?

If you’re Berlin’s Keshav Patel, who is 14 now, you take matters into your own hands and start a company.

Keshav, frustrated with having to go door-to-door selling candy just before Halloween to fund a school trip to Washington D.C., told his father, Rajesh, of his desire to raise money differently. That night at dinner Rajesh challenged Keshav to come up with his own fundraising method.

Keshav’s idea was to create a project, in this case a video blog chronicling his trip, in exchange for funds. After realizing that no tool already existed for youths, he decided to create his own. This marked the beginning of MeritBooster http://www.meritbooster.com/ .

By Ryan Cane

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