How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child?s Problem-Solving Abilities

Marggraff, Jim

ISBN 10: 1727339576 / ISBN 13: 9781727339574

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child?s Problem-Solving Abilities
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1727339576
• ISBN 13: 9781727339574
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 8 ounces

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Synopsis

"A founder is anyone who sees a problem, recognizes his or her potential to do something about it, and takes the necessary steps to create a solution." As a parent, you want the best for your children — you want to prepare them for success and help them realize their true potential. Raising kids with a founder's mindset will provide them with the tools to address an issue or follow a passion, to make some part of the world — no matter how small or large — a better place.In "How to Raise a Founder With Heart," Jim Marggraff, the creator of the LeapFrog LeapPad Learning System — and father of two founders in their own right — provides parents with a framework for raising children with the skills critical to becoming a good founder. Here's just a sampling of what readers will learn about:How to help children approach any issue by first finding the right problem to solveThe Founder's Top 3: why, how, and what-How to think like a founder, including developing mental patterns and resisting defeatist thinkingWhy developing your children's empathy is the greatest behavior you can cultivateHow to help your children pursue their interests safely, even when there is risk-taking involvedThe actions you need for molding your children into self-motivated founders

About the Author

Jim Marggraff is a serial entrepreneur who is dedicated to developing innovative technologies that improve learning and productivity. He is the founder and CEO of Eyefluence, a company that transforms intent into action by leveraging eye biomechanics and the eye-brain connection to create an eye-interaction technology solution for head-mounted displays. Eyefluence was recently acquired by Google. Jim has founded or co-founded several successful companies, including Livescribe, Explore Technologies, and StrataCom. He invented the LeapFrog LeapPad Learning System, leading to sales of more than $1 billion worldwide, and the Livescribe smartpen, both of which help students and adults around the world. Jim holds at least 36 pending and accepted patents, and he is listed as one of MIT's top 150 inventors.

Jim and his wife, MJ, live in California, and they are the parents of two founders in their own right, Blake and Annie.