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Episode 47125 minutos
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Resumen

Every business worth building starts with a problem you’ve felt yourself. This high school senior turned his into an app.

In this entrepreneur interview, Kanishk Sasikumar, a Bentonville High School senior and co-founder of Investo, shares how a DECA competition project became a gamified financial literacy app now live on the App Store and Google Play. Whether you’re a teen with a business idea or a parent wondering how kids learn about money, this founder story shows what it takes to go from a notebook idea to a launched product before graduation.


En este episodio:

  • Turning a DECA project into a real startup
  • Pivoting from an art tutor marketplace
  • Gamifying financial literacy for teens
  • Freemium pricing and pilot testing
  • Why marketing is harder than building
  • Why ideas rarely get stolen
  • Choosing a co-founder with complementary skills
  • School bundles and bank partnerships

⏱️ Capítulos: 

0:41 Meet Kanishk Sasikumar 

1:18 From DECA to a first startup 

2:04 Pivoting to teen financial literacy 

4:05 Inside the app 

6:26 Marketing through word of mouth 

7:33 Freemium model and Startup Crawl 

9:20 Biggest lessons: business model and marketing 

10:21 Balancing high school and a startup 

11:44 How teens can start a business 

14:10 Why your idea won’t get stolen 

15:05 The money lessons schools don’t teach 

16:40 Selling to parents and schools 

17:58 Building with a co-founder 

20:22 Five-year vision and bank partnerships

About Kanishk Sasikumar: 

Kanishk is a senior at Bentonville High School and co-founder of Investo, a financial literacy app he built with co-founder Arjun. The app placed sixth at DECA’s international competition and launched in April. 

🔗 Kanishk on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanishk-sasikumar/

🔗 Investo website: https://investo-finance.xyz/

🎧 Sigue el podcast Startup Junkies en YouTube, Spotify, y Pódcasts de Apple.

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