For parents who want their kid to have a real shot

Some kids will chase jobs. Yours can learn to create them.

Young Founders is a printed Playbook and Workbook that takes a young person from “I don’t know where to start” to making their first real venture move. It’s the capability school never taught, and the one that matters most now.

For 15 to 30 year olds and the parents backing them. No business degree needed. No burning idea required. No course to sit through.

Get the Kit

Digital $67 AUD · Digital + printed edition $97 AUD

The Young Founders Kit, a printed Playbook and Workbook

The thing you think about

You can see the potential. You just can’t see the path.

You know what they’re capable of. You’ve seen the spark, the stubbornness, the way they light up about the things that are theirs.

What you can’t see is the path. The world you were told to prepare them for has changed. Good grades and a safe job stopped being a promise, and the advice you grew up on doesn’t quite reassure you anymore. They don’t need another tutor or another lecture. They need to learn how to back themselves and make something real.

The gap isn’t talent, or even ideas. It’s knowing how to take the first real step, and believing they’re allowed to.

What this gives them

From “one day” to their first real move.

You don’t learn to build by studying business. You learn by making an offer, talking to real people and seeing what happens next.

Young Founders gives them a clear path through that first, uncertain stretch, whether they arrive with three ideas, one, or none yet. It makes the work feel possible without making it small.

Find the idea worth backing

Somewhere between a loose thought and a real possibility. They get clear on the problem, the person and the idea to build around, even if they’re starting from a blank page.

Make a real offer

Shape something people can understand, care about and choose. A first version that can meet the world, not a classroom exercise.

Learn by moving

Test, listen, change the shape and keep going. That’s how a first attempt becomes capability they carry into everything after.

A minute with Charbel

Why this kit exists.

What arrives

Two books. One way of getting started.

The Playbook

A story-led way through the moves, from first idea to first customer. It comes from real ventures, not a textbook.

The Workbook

Where the idea stops being theoretical. Prompts and exercises turn each move into work they can do, at their own pace.

Woven through both is the part most business books miss: who they are, what they want, and the nerve to back themselves. The hard part isn’t only the plan. It’s believing they’re allowed to begin.

Both are printed and posted, theirs to keep. Printed to order, usually arriving in about a week. Shipping is free to Australia, the UK and the USA.

The real outcome

The business is the proof. Who they become is the point.

This isn’t a promise of a billion-dollar company. It’s something more useful. They become someone who sees a possibility, works out the next move and has the nerve to make it.

That might be their first customer. It might be a useful failure that shows them what to change. Either way, they come out knowing more than when the idea was still only a thought. And once they’ve started once, they know they can start again.

That’s the advantage that outlasts any single job, industry or economy.

Why it’s worth it

You’d invest in a tutor. This teaches what a tutor can’t.

A tutor lifts a grade. This teaches the thing underneath every grade: how to spot a possibility, make a real move, and back themselves when nobody’s handing out permission.

For less than the cost of a single tutoring session, it’s a capability they keep for life.

Get the Kit

Digital $67 AUD · Digital + printed edition $97 AUD

By the time they’re through

They’ll know how to move an idea forward.

Find the idea worth backing, or find one from a blank page, instead of second-guessing every possibility.
Understand the people they’re trying to help and what those people will actually care about.
Make a first offer they can put in front of people beyond friends and family.
Test, listen and improve without waiting for perfect.
Build the self-trust that only comes from making something real.

Built from lived experience

Decades of building, turned into a first path.

Charbel started his first business in 1988 and has built across design, technology, innovation and brand ever since. He’s taught thousands and helped shape countless companies. The moves in this kit come from that lived work, shaped into a first path a young person can actually follow.

Benjamin Chen

★★★★★

This helped me lift my career to another level. Great knowledge and technique, and it helped me grow as a solution finder. Love the passion and energy from Charbel.

Mary Louise Brammer

★★★★★

I came here to learn a range of skills, and I ended up learning about myself and life lessons. It went well beyond what I expected.

Nathan Streater

★★★★★

An amazing leader and teacher. Charbel brings warmth and a wealth of knowledge, and when mentoring he captivates your mind, always leaving you wanting to learn more.

Niece O’Connor

★★★★★

His enthusiasm for people is contagious. He has deep experience to draw on and always has something current to share. You’ll get more than you bargained for with Charbel.

“I’ve built ventures, taught thousands of students and helped shape countless companies. My dream is for people to live happy, meaningful and abundant lives. Always learning, always growing and always curious.”

Charbel A. Zeaiter

Questions parents ask

Before you start them.

My kid doesn’t have an idea yet. Is it still for them?

Yes, and that’s often the best place to begin. The kit helps them find and test the idea worth backing, so they’re starting from possibility rather than pressure.

Will they actually use it?

It’s built to be done, not read. Short moves, prompts and real steps, at their own pace. Plenty of parents begin it alongside their teenager, which makes it far more likely to stick.