Creating a startup involves having a strong team, useful advice, and in most cases, funding. Growing your established startup involves adding on to your team knowledgable and talented people. All of this involves individuals who are sometimes hard to find and motivate. Envision With Me is a social network that helps teen entrepreneurs and growing startups. Today, we will take a look at how Envision With Me helps all the aspects of entrepreneurship.

In a world where teens know more about tech then most adults, inspire revolutionary ideas, and won’t wait for old age to get started, our economy needs a network to connect teen entrepreneurs, facilitate young commerce, and foster new businesses. No reason why only adults should have the resources for success – it’s time they made room for us. - The Envision with Me Proclamation

You Must Start From Somewhere

Envision With Me was created out of a need for having young entrepreneurs help other young entrepreneurs build great things. However, as we all know, we must start from somewhere. With that being said, not every teen entrepreneur is ready to build a product right out of the womb. For many, that comes after years of experience with other startup, learning from their mistakes and building their resume.

Envision With Me helps with this by allowing teens to find startup openings and gigs. The social network allows you to also send and receive transactions, allowing you to get paid for the gigs you find from the website. The commerce system is currently working with PayPal to provide a secure way for companies and freelancers to transfer funds. Once your feet is wet in freelance, you may have the confidence to start your idea. Envision With Me allows you to find co-founders to join in, raise and find revenue, and much more. When mistakes occur, you’ll have help from the educational and mentoring resources Envision With Me has to offer.

Being Ready on Day One

With a social network has developed as Envision With Me, it can be a bit easy not to know where to start. When talking with Laura Guirau, head of marketing for Envision with Me, one piece of advice she mentioned is to know first hand how you want to make use of Envision With Me and be prepared. Individuals looking to work with a startup should have their resume and cover letters developed, companies looking for new talent should be prepared to make a detailed company profile. Growing startups should meet to discuss rather they need to gather revenue through contests, crowd funding, or grants.

Practical Examples

You may be wondering some of the amazing things you can exactly do with Envision With Me. Aside from all of the amazing features provided, Envision with Me has a couple that are quite unique to the social network. No other social network allows you to completely build a successful team of cofounders and members. Envision With Me is the only entrepreneurship-focused social network that provides a commerce system, also with the ability to crowd fund. Plus, with the ability to find and allocate grants, scholarships, contests, and resources, Envision with Me is a social network that can be a great resource for both entrepreneurs just starting out and those already established with companies.

The Envision With Me Team

Here are the amazing individuals behind Envision With Me. The founder and president behind Envision With Me and PentaPlate is Justin Harris. The VP and co-founder is Javier Sandoval. The head of marketing is Laura Guirau. Envision With Me’s project manager is Brad Thompson.

To Learn More…

Envision With Me is in its final stages of becoming public and ready for us to all enjoy. Early this fall, you will find yourself on their site, signing up and networking! You can receive more updates on Envision With Me on their Twitter page (@TeensEnvision). Also, their website will soon offer a ton of information, sneak peaks, and more on what they have cooking up (subscription required).  To hold you over until they are public, here is a nice and funny video brought out by Envision With Me. Enjoy!