Here are some resources that will be especially helpful for young entrepreneurs.

For help thinking about ideas:

• My Small Biz - http://mysmallbiz.com/teen-business/teen-business-ideas.php
• Youth Venture - http://www.youthventure.org/ 
  
• National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship: http://newengland.nfte.com/
• Junior Achievement – http://www.ja.org
• Creative Education Foundation - http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/youthwise.shtml
• National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance -  http://www.nciia.org/

For help writing your business plan:

• Moot Corp's guide to creating fundable business plans: http://www.mootcorp.org/utopia-mootcorp/utopia-moot/index.html

For help along the way:

• JA Titan – test your skills in running a business in this ultimate business simulation – http://titan.ja.org
• Entrepreneurship Education - http://eweb.slu.edu/youth_entrepreneurship.htm
• Entrepreneur.com - http://www.entrepreneur.com/tsu/archivesba/0,6835,298716,00.html
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance – http://www.innovationtools.com

Funding

Youth Noise: See Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3.

How to open a savings or checking account; or get a credit card:

• How does a teenager open a bank account (eHow)?

Resources for training, education, and mentoring/guidance:

• Mentoring - http://www.mentoring.org
• Future Business Leaders of America – http://www.fbla-pbl.org
• Entrepreneur Magazine - http://www.teenstartups.com
• Distributive Education Clubs of America – http://www.deca.org
• Young America’s Business Trust – www.ybiz.net
• Students in Free Enterprise – http://www.sife.org
• Boy Scouts of America – http://www.scouting.org
• Boys and Girls Clubs of America – http://www.bgca.org
• Girl Scouts of America – http://www.girlscouts.org
• Association of Young Latino Entrepreneurs – http://www.ayle.org
• 4-H - http://www.4husa.org
• Entrepreneur U – http://www.entrepreneuru.org
• National Academy Foundation - http://www.naf.org
• The W.E.B. Dubois Scholars Institute – http://www.webduboisscholars.org

Employment opportunities

• Year Up: http://www.yearup.org/locations/boston.htm 
• For Boston court-involved youth: http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/yoboston/en/