Episode description

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff welcomes writer, author, and entrepreneur Shane DeRolf from BigWordClub on the program to talk about how teachers can start with a single idea and turn it into a profitable business concept.

If you have an idea that you would like to turn into something special, please visit www.BuildYourEDUBrand.com to learn how we can work together this year to help you on your entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Big word club
• What is an entrepreneur?
  • How to create value for your target audience?
  
  
• Book: From Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • What can you be the best in the world at?
  • What are you passionate about?
  • How can these two things make you money?
  
  
• Organizing your thoughts to begin your entrepreneurial journey
• Creating a proof of concept
• Finding funding for your passions
• Marketing and promotions of your ideas and concepts
• Finding the balance between work, family, and being an entrepreneur
• Creating collaborations and sharing your visions for others to support
• Improving your product one step at a time
• How to create better interactions and conversations between parents and children

Shane DeRolf brings more than 30 years of children’s publishing, television production, and executive management to his role as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Big Word Club. His unique talent for molding ideas into successful ventures has led to a powerful track record in creating and building successful start-ups in children’s media, toys, and games. Shane’s latest venture, Big Word Club, is an evidence-based, award-winning digital learning program that uses books, songs, animation, and dance to improve preschool and early elementary school children’s vocabularies in an attempt to help close the Word Gao in America. Big Word Club was recently the focus of 12-month MIT-funded randomized control trial that was implemented by the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto. The results...