{"id":5183,"date":"2008-05-12T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5183"},"modified":"2008-05-13T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:47:47","slug":"smells_like_tee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/smells_like_tee\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Teen Entrepreneurial Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool kid alert: Teen entrepreneur Anshul Samar, age 14. This fiesty entrepreneurial spirit will be one of the key speakers at tomorrow’s Second Annual Teens in Tech Conference<\/a>, sponsored by Sun, Microsoft, HP, and others.<\/p>\n\n

Anshul is the founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire, Inc<\/a>. He has created a fantasy role-playing chemistry board game, Elementeo: “Our aim is to combine fun, excitement, education, and chemistry, all in one grand concoction! We don’t want to create a fantasy wizard world or create a boring education textbook world, but combine the two where fun and learning come together without clashing!” [more<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n

MSN recently featured Anshul in “Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21”<\/a> (thanks to newstab posters garbanzobean and an<\/strike>mdavadi). How did he get started? In in his own words:<\/p>\n\n

Entrepreneurship is cool, and so is chemistry! Both have lots of actions, reactions, explosions, experimentation, and most\nimportantly, the joy and excitement of creating something new! Creating a company has been on my mind for a long time, but\nit was only in the 5th grade when the idea of a chemistry based\ncard game struck me. I must have created and thrown away\ndozens of prototypes to get just the right concoction of education\nand fun. …\n\nElementeo is a game where you create compounds, combat\nelements, and conquer chemistry… A game of battle, chemical\nreactions, and powerful scientists… And a game that kids,\nteenagers, college students, teachers, scientists, parents, and\ngrandparents can all play and have fun.<\/blockquote>\n\n

The excitement Anshul has poured into his maiden entrepreneurial voyage (the game will be released this month!) is evident at his company’s homepage which is very much written in his voice … and in this video from Mark Coker of VentureBeat, taken at the 2007 TieCon conference in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n\n

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Here’s to his motto of “Create, Combat, Conquer!” \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool kid alert: teen entrepreneur Anshul Samar, age 14. This fiesty entrepreneurial spirit will be one of the key speakers at tomorrow’s Second Annual Teens in Tech Conference<\/a>, sponsored by Sun, Microsoft, HP, and others. Anshul is the founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire, Inc<\/a>. He has created a fantasy role-playing chemistry board game, Elementeo<\/p> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,35,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}