Question

What happens after the 90 days?

The short answer

They have a business. Ninety days is long enough to choose an idea, test it, price it, get customers, and get through the week it stops being fun. It is not long enough to build something large and does not pretend to be. Most kids keep going, some close it properly, and some start something different, which is always easier. There is no renewal or level two to buy.

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They have a business, and the honest answer is that what happens next is mostly up to them rather than up to us.

Ninety days is long enough to choose an idea, test it, price it, get customers, hit the week where it stops being fun, and come out the other side with something real. It is not long enough to build something large, and the kit does not pretend otherwise. What a kid has at the end is usually a handful of customers, some money they earned, and proof that they can do it.

Three things tend to happen from there.

They keep going. Most common, and the business is theirs to run with no further instructions from anybody. The material they will actually want at this point is about growing rather than starting: repeat customers, raising prices, route density, and eventually hiring somebody. That is what the running a business content here covers, and it is free.

They stop, on purpose. Also fine, and more valuable than it sounds. A kid who finished a thing, closed it properly, and can say what they learned has done something most adults handle badly.

They start something different. The second business is always easier, because the hard part was never the idea. It was finding out they could say a price to an adult without dying.

What does not happen is a renewal or a next tier you need to buy. There is no level two.

The certificate in the box is for the end of the ninety days, and the sprint map shows the whole thing on one page so a kid can see where they are. The one thing worth doing on the last week is counting: what they made, what they can do now that they could not in week one, and who they helped.

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