If I weren’t so far into our business, I’d hop on this opportunity myself.

If you're interested, download the job description. Also, feel free to call or email me if you have any questions.

Every single day, periods are set for you to show up at. You get breaks and bells remind you when the period starts and ends. If you start to do really poorly, your parents are notified. If you have a strong peer group you like, you'll have an extra level of accountability and fun.

The only problem is that you're taking required classes that are often irrelevant to achieving your goals, the teachers aren't always the best, and you don't have a choice in the matter. You have to participate.

Now, picture this!! What would it look like if you had the same level of accountability, but for your most important goals!!?? What if you got to pursue these goals with some of the country's most ambitious students? Imagine if you got to choose periods like Get In Shape, Read Books I Love, Build My Closest Relationships, Work on What's Most Important at Work, Plan for Tomorrow, etc. How much of a difference would that make in your life over next year, the next five years, the rest of your life? Building these crucial habits could literally be the difference between death and life or success and failure.

We've taken the first steps to creating this level of accountability with our Getting Stuff Done program. We've been testing it throughout the summer, and it has achieved amazing results. I hope you like it.

This job is for you if you…

• Want to change the world, and make money while you do it!
  
• Believe the sky is the limit with everything you do!
  
• Have the discipline to work hard and smart with complete autonomy (for the most part) over where, when, and how you work!
  
• Have had excellent results in sales and marketing through out your career!
  
• Are committed to constant and never-ending self-improvement!

Compensation: 30% of all sponsorship sales booked.

Year-1 Sales Target: $500,000

Location: Work from home.

Application Deadline: Position starts immediately. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Work Schedule: Full-time is preferred.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  
• At least one year of sales experience required
  
• Experience with corporate sponsorship
  
• Existing relationships with corporate decision makers a plus
  
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills in-person and on the phone
  
• Self-motivated
  
• High integrity

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to michael@extremee.org.

• Unlimited support with 24-hr response from group leader
  
• Daily step-by-step instructions that walk you through specific actions you need to take in order to move forward
  
• Four one-hour conference calls to hold you accountable to completing the actions and to receive multiple perspectives on the challenges you're facing from other members
  
• Help finding a like-minded, daily accountability partner

Find & Test Your Million Dollar Idea
This group will help you create and prove a business idea that leads to your life vision, won’t break the bank, and is based on your values, strengths, and passions!

Make Your Business Official
This group will help you turn your business idea into a business organization by helping you incorporate, comply with local, state, and federal government regulations; create a corporate identity; and put systems in place to grow your business.

Now, I know what people mean when they tell me that I make them feel like an under-achiever. What takes many entrepreneurs decades to learn, Ben learned extremely quickly and at a young age:

• The power of sales
  
• The importance of networking
  
• How to build an active advisory board
  
• How to outsourcing to India
  
• The importance of bootstrapping and frugality
  
• etc.

The reader is left to question, "How is possible that somebody so young could accomplish so much?" Is it, because Ben went to an extremely good high school? Is it because Ben has a very supportive family who helped him emotionally, intellectually, and financially? Is it because Ben lives in Silicon Valley, perhaps the international capital for start up companies? While these are all true, it would a huge mistake to stop there. Unfortunately, most people do.

Below are some reasons why I think Ben has been so successful:

• He started when he was 13-year-old. Some of the most successful young entrepreneurs I know today started extremely young, even younger then Ben. I've noticed that the important lessons of business can be grasped even by grade school students so that as the young entrepreneur gets older, his or her business sophistication is equal to individuals who are decades older. Furthermore, I've noticed that starting a successful business when you're young allows you to be a meaningful contributor to the adult world. Being in the adult world and the teen world at the same time really forces you to question life in a way that most other students don't feel the urge to do until their early twenties when they enter the workforce. This introspection leads to more rapid development and maturation.
  
• Ben takes action and keeps going. Ben candidly shares many of the challenges he had while starting his business. It is clear that receiving 'luck' does not explain Ben's success. Ben was willing to learn the painful lessons of failure and create his own luck.
  
• Ben was different and he used that to his advantage. Being a young entrepreneur leads to a lot of opportunities. It leads to press, and it often leads to business people being willing to help. Ben was really able to leverage these by understanding the power of networking and how it works, being open to feedback, and asking for help. These skills ultimately allowed him to stand on the shoulders of some of the world's most successful business people and be able to process what he saw.

1. unlimited support to all of your questions within 24 hours
   
2. daily step-by-step instructions
   
3. one conference call

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: START A REAL, VIABLE BUSINESS

Many people dream about one day starting their own business! But few actually get started. In this program, some of the country's top young entrepreneurs will show you how to:

1. Identify, test, protect, and pursue viable business opportunities that match your passions and strengths.
   
2. Take all the steps necessary to become an official business.
   
3. Inexpensively build your brand and promote yourself online.

Bio:
Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons, co-founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Education and authors of The Student Success Manifesto and All or Nothing, Now or Never, have been keynote speakers on the topics of student success and youth entrepreneurship at events and conferences from Washington state to Washington D.C. As 2005 graduates of New York University, authors, teachers, speakers, and award-winning entrepreneurs, they are able to deliver a unique perspective that connects with audiences. Recently, Michael and Sheena were named by Business Week as one of the country's top 25 entrepreneurs under 25 and featured on USA Today, the AOL homepage, CBS, ABC, NBC.

Using creative financing strategies, Sheena became financially independent of her parents at the age of 17 and has been able to completely pay her way through NYU’s $30,000+ yearly tuition, excel in school, work full-time at jobs she loves, co-found a business, and write a book.

Michael co-founded his first business, Princeton WebSolutions (PWS), when he was sixteen years old. PWS was later rated the #1 youth-run web development company in the nation by Youngbiz Magazine. In addition, Michael has been the winner of three entrepreneur of the year awards from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Fleet, and the National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship.

Bio:
Ryan P. M. Allis, 22, is the CEO of Broadwick Corp., providers of web-based emarketing communications software including the IntelliContact email marketing software, the CEO of Virante, Inc., a web marketing consulting firm that assists high potential start-ups and established Fortune 500R organizations launch brands and build sales on the web, and the author of the book Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales.

Over the past four years, Ryan has built three companies to $2 million or more in annual sales--two as a marketing consultant and one as CEO. Today, Ryan spends most of his time on his latest venture, Broadwick Corp. As CEO he's managed the company from its start in July 2003 to its current size with 40 employees, over 7,000 customers, and over 900 channel partners. Ryan was named by BusinessWeek as one of the "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25" in 2005.

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LEARN HOW TO FIND AND ANALYZE REAL ESTATE DEALS

Does investing in real estate seem like a daunting and scary task? Do you ever wonder how you should get started?

Although there are many skill sets necessary to be a successful real estate investor there are TWO skill sets that can make you money NOW.

It is these TWO skill sets that my mentor trained me in when I first started investing in real estate. It is these skills sets that allowed me to acquire nearly $1 million worth of real estate in my first year as an investor.

During the next 30 days you will learn a step-by-step process to finding extraordinary investment deals and quickly analyzing their potential. Furthermore, you will receive day-by-day content, quick answers to all of your questions, and be invited to participate in one conference call.

Bio:
Doug Fath has sold two businesses, developed a highly profitable multi-million dollar real estate portfolio and helped hundreds of students generate thousands of dollars in passive income, all by the age of 25.

Today, Doug is a full time real estate investor and financial freedom activist who is committed to helping people create wealth, while pursuing their true passion in life. Using the principles that worked for him and other successful entrepreneurs, Doug inspires and empowers individuals on their journey to financial freedom through coaching, seminars and keynotes.

Doug’s entrepreneurial endeavors have received national acclaim. He is a winner of the 2004 Bank of America Entrepreneurship Award and has been featured and interviewed by The NYU Report, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Bloomberg TV. Finally, Doug is a Keynote Speaker on ‘The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour’, which brings America’s top young entrepreneurs to colleges across the nation, and a featured speaker for the American Management Association at conferences and schools across the country.

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I'm so fucking confident in myself. Not because I'm Michael Simmons, and I've been an entrepreneur for 9 years.

I'm so confident, because I'm human. Because I believe that anybody at any point in time has the potential to achieve anything regardless of their past.

In terms of business, I'm SO behind where I thought I'd be. Some of my friends who are entrepreneurs have grown more quickly. That is painful. It has hurt my confidence and made me question myself. Am I a good entrepreneur? Are we doing the right business idea? What am I doing wrong???

Then, I remember that I'm human. And, I don't say that as an excuse. I say it for inspiration.

With that said, when other people say "No", is the beginning, not the end. It is an opportunity to:

1. Understand people's point of view so you can sell your vision better next time.
   
2. Show people how much you believe in your vision, by not taking "No".
   
3. Get past people's time filters. Most people want to help, but there just isn't enough time. When you break through the noise and create slight tension, you have the opportunity to show that you and your idea are good investments.

As I was reading Do You! by Russell Simmons, I came across the solution: Confidence!! I've heard it said that success is going from failure to failure with confidence. That's what I think about pursuing one's vision.

The more confident I am in myself and my vision, the more the "downs" become opportunities and stepping stones toward achieving the vision. The less confidence I have, the more the "downs" become signs that the vision is about to unravel and that I'm a fraud.

How to develop and maintain confidence? Now, that's a whole other blog post.

Wendy is the founder of Teacher for America, which she started while still a senior at Princeton University in 1998. Today, it has an operating budget of over $50 million and reaches over 350,000 students / year.

I’m not talking about the rich helping the poor, the old helping the young, or the educated helping the uneducated. I’m also not talking about something set in stone that God says you must do with your life.

I’m talking about us as human beings, realizing the blessing that life is no matter what our circumstances, and realizing that we are uniquely suited to make a contribution in this short life. Everyone has a unique background, unique strengths, and something that uniquely makes their heart sing, or their calling.

Not knowing what makes our heart sing is not an excuse for just passing through life. On the contrary, it is a call to action. It is a call to listen to life’s clues and test them like a scientist tests a hypothesis or like a child solves a puzzle.

One of my favorite classes at NYU was Technology & Innovation. In it, the professor talked about how many of the most successful entrepreneurs aren't necesarily the people who create the technology breakthroughs. It's the people who come up with creative applications of the breakthroughs and monetize it.

To my knowledge, Sourceforge.net is the best search engine for open source projects. Is this accurate?