🏢 Track 05 · The K–12 Capstone

World of Business. The thread no other program ships.

22 animated episodes live today — with 60+ more in the production pipeline. 131 PDFs. Thirteen grades, all woven together. Kindergarten "needs vs wants" through graduating-senior "open your real company." World of Business is the K–12 entrepreneurship pathway every kid in your house grows up inside — and keeps growing into.

22 Videos shipped
131 PDFs
39 Episode cells
60+ More on deck
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Meet Buck
The K–12 Business Mentor
The K–12 Pathway

Thirteen grades. One connected business education.

Each grade builds on the last. The kindergartner who learns "what is a business" becomes the third-grader pricing their lemonade, the sixth-grader running a Profit-and-Loss statement, the senior pitching investors at graduation. 22 episodes live today; 60+ in the build queue. Scroll the ladder — every grade is mapped.

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K–2
Goods vs services. Needs vs wants. Where money comes from.
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1
K–2
What a business sells. First customers, first dollars.
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2
K–2
Why people pay. Solve a problem. Earning, helping, choosing.
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3
3–5
Ideas from skills. Pricing it right. Costs vs profit.
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4
3–5
A simple business plan. Budgeting. Keeping customers.
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5
3–5
Assets, liabilities. Margin, markup, money flow.
IN PRODUCTION
6
6–8
Systems and roles. Org charts. From idea to action plan.
ON ROADMAP
7
6–8
Know your customer. Jobs to be done. Segments.
ON ROADMAP
8
6–8
Measure. Operate smarter. Read the dashboard.
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9
9–12
Entrepreneurship = organized problem-solving. Lean canvas. MVP.
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10
9–12
Ownership, money, compliance. Capital and contracts.
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11
9–12
Pricing strategy (2-part). Sales. Building a team.
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12
9–12
Launch-ready. The pitch deck. Opening day. CAPSTONE.
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K–2 band 3–5 band 6–8 band 9–12 band
22 Shipped · 60+ More Coming

What ships now — and what's next.

Each cell below is a real shipped lesson with Student Pack + Family Guide + Educator Guide + Coloring/Activity Book. 22 episodes ship today; 60+ more are queued in the pipeline — new grades roll out as each batch passes the 7-expert ship gate.

K–2 · Foundations

9 cells shipped · coloring + family + educator
K · V01-V03
Goods, Services & Where Money Comes From
3 episodes

Kindergarten meets businesses through everyday choices — the toy store, the grocery, the lemonade stand.

G1 · V01-V03
What a Business Sells
3 episodes

First-graders learn to name a business — what does it sell, who buys it, why?

G2 · V01-V03
Why People Pay
3 episodes

Solving a problem someone has. The kid-first understanding of why a customer hands over a dollar.

3–5 · Mechanics

5 of 9 cells shipped · pricing + planning + costs
G3 · V02 + V03
Pricing & Profit
2 of 3 episodes live

Pricing it right. Costs vs profit. The math that turns a hobby into a real little business.

G4 · V01-V03
First Business Plan
3 episodes

A simple one-page business plan. Plan-to-budget. Get and keep customers.

6–8 · Systems

1 of 9 cells shipped · Grade 8 apex live
G8 · V01
Measure, Operate, Improve
Apex episode

Reading a dashboard. Picking the next smart move. The mindset behind every modern operator.

9–12 · Launch-Ready

7 of 12 cells shipped · high-school apex live
G9 · V01 + V03
The Entrepreneur Mindset
2 of 3 episodes live

Entrepreneurship as organized problem-solving. Lean canvas + first real MVP.

G10 · V01
Ownership & Compliance
Apex episode

Capital. Contracts. Getting paid. The grown-up plumbing of any real venture.

G11 · V01a + V01b
Pricing Strategy (2-part)
Marcus + the Four-Rung Ladder

Marcus builds the four-rung pricing ladder. Then tests it. The bundle. The pitch. The grade 11 set piece.

G12 · V01-V03
The Capstone
Launch-ready · 3 episodes

The pitch deck. Opening day. The launch-ready entrepreneur. Senior year arc fully shipped.

Real samples · one per band

Download a real PDF from each grade band.

See the K–12 climb in your hands. Each tile below is a real Student Pack from one shipped episode in that band. Click to download — same quality as everything inside the membership.

The combination no other program ships

Personal finance teaches them how money works.

World of Business teaches them how it's made. Together — the two literacies almost no other curriculum braids into one K–12 path.

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Personal Finance

Earn, save, invest, protect, file taxes. The four other CashQuest tracks teach your kid how to not lose money — how money flows around them.

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World of Business

Plan, sell, price, manage, scale. World of Business teaches your kid how money is generated — how a business actually creates value.

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A young adult who reads a Profit-and-Loss statement (P&L) by 16 and runs their own venture by 22.

Most kids graduate with one of these literacies. Yours graduates with both.

The research is loud

Early entrepreneurship education changes adult outcomes.

These aren't our claims — they're from Junior Achievement & EY, the Common App, the Federal Reserve, NFTE, the Kauffman Foundation, and Endeavor Insight.

34%
Teen ambition signal

34% of US teens want to start a business of their own.

JA & EY's annual Teen Entrepreneur Index finds about 1 in 3 US teens (13–17) say they want to start a real business someday. World of Business gives them the K–12 runway to do it — not just dream about it.

Source: Junior Achievement USA & Ernst & Young, Teen Entrepreneur Index (annual).

2.7×
Net-worth gap

US business owners have ~2.7× the median net worth of paycheck workers.

The Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances consistently shows business-owning households have median net worth roughly 2.7 times higher than households whose primary income is wage / salary alone. This isn't about luck. It's structural.

Source: Federal Reserve Board, Survey of Consumer Finances (2022); analysis by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

66%
Curriculum gap

66% of US high schoolers never see a business plan in school.

NFTE & Kauffman research finds two-thirds of US high schoolers graduate without ever writing or reading a real business plan. World of Business closes the gap schools simply don't fill.

Source: Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) & Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, State of Entrepreneurship Education reports.

86%
Teacher demand

86% of K–12 teachers want entrepreneurship in their curriculum.

Kauffman's teacher survey finds 86% of K–12 educators believe entrepreneurship education should be part of regular instruction. Most don't teach it — because no K–12 ready-made curriculum exists. World of Business is the one they've been asking for.

Source: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Educator Perception of Entrepreneurship Education.

+34%
Admissions edge

+34% growth in Common App entrepreneurship activity since 2019.

The Common Application reports "founded a venture" / "started a business" as among the fastest-growing self-reported activity categories from 2019–2024 — up roughly a third. Selective admissions teams treat it as a tipping-point differentiator.

Source: The Common Application, Annual First-Year Admissions Report; Common App data dashboard.

9 of 10
Founder pattern

9 of 10 high-growth founders started a venture before 25.

Endeavor Insight's founder-data analysis finds ~90% of high-growth (unicorn-track) founders launched their first business by age 25 — usually with a smaller venture in their teens that taught them how. World of Business is the early at-bat.

Source: Endeavor Insight, Founder Studies; corroborated by Stanford GSB / HBS entrepreneurship research.

Why CashQuest

The only K–12 entrepreneurship pathway that ships.

Other programs touch entrepreneurship in one elective unit or a one-week summer camp. World of Business is the K–12 spine.

Junior Achievement

Volunteer-led classroom programs

  • School / venue-based delivery only
  • Volunteer instructor model
  • Per-program / per-workshop pricing
  • Strong — but not a K–12 connected path
  • Hard to access from home
NFTE

High-school entrepreneurship class

  • Real curriculum, real outcomes
  • Teacher-led classroom only
  • Mostly 9–12 focus
  • No K–8 progression
  • Not designed for home/parent-led delivery
YEA! / Other camps

Summer / after-school programs

  • Intensive but short
  • $$$ per program (often $1,000+)
  • One-shot, not pathway
  • Limited reach beyond local site
  • Doesn't build year over year
CashQuest World of Business

The only home-ready K–12 pathway

  • 13 grades scaffolded K through 12
  • 22 animated mentor-led episodes shipping
  • 131 PDFs (Student / Family / Educator / Coloring)
  • 22 episodes live + 60+ in active production
  • 7-expert ship gate before any episode goes live
  • Homeschool, classroom, after-school ready
  • One family membership at $9.99/mo covers all kids
  • Braided with the four personal-finance tracks

Give your kid thirteen years of business literacy — not a one-week camp.

22 episodes shipped today. 60+ more in the pipeline. 131 PDFs. 39 episode cells across the K–12 plan and growing. New grades ship as each batch earns the gate. One $9.99/mo family membership covers every kid in your house — and unlocks every new episode the day it ships, free.

7-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime · one membership covers your whole family