Charlottetown native, Sean Court, knows that he does not know everything about business.
The 22-year-old entrepreneur welcomes input just one year into getting Beaumont & Co. off the ground with his brother James.
The siblings learned how to roll up their sleeves from their father, who had a flyer-based advertising business.
“There was no easy way, no tricks, you just work extremely hard,’’ says Sean.
Now, Sean is set to seek input from his peers from around the globe when he attends the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit (YEA) 2016 in Beijing in September.
“Just listen to what people have to say because there are a lot of smart people that are doing a lot of really interesting things,’’ he says.
The G20 YEA Summit is an annual convention of young business owners aged 18-39 and the organizations that support them. It was established with the aim of championing the importance of young entrepreneurs to the G20 member nations and to share examples and practices.
He sees the Sept. 7-8 summit that takes place just after the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China as a great opportunity to grow contacts for his Halifax-based business that fabricates portable and custom displays.
“I’m going to try and shake as many hands as I can – try to stay connected,’’ he says.
Sean received the selection to be part of a team of 22 entrepreneurs representing Canada at the G20 YEA after taking a rigorous application process.
He wants to make the most of the experience.
He says work is already underway on developing policy such as calling on G20 governments to implement a consistent and streamlined Young Entrepreneur Visa program across the G20 that would basically enable a person to test his or her business in any of the G20 nations for up to two years.
He hopes to share the connections, resources and knowledge he gains at the summit.
Sean also plans to continue working with his brother to take an aggressive but realistic approach to expanding their company.
“You can’t grow big over night,’’ he says.
“You start to grow incrementally.’’
Charlottetown native, Sean Court, knows that he does not know everything about business.
The 22-year-old entrepreneur welcomes input just one year into getting Beaumont & Co. off the ground with his brother James.
The siblings learned how to roll up their sleeves from their father, who had a flyer-based advertising business.
“There was no easy way, no tricks, you just work extremely hard,’’ says Sean.
Now, Sean is set to seek input from his peers from around the globe when he attends the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit (YEA) 2016 in Beijing in September.
“Just listen to what people have to say because there are a lot of smart people that are doing a lot of really interesting things,’’ he says.
The G20 YEA Summit is an annual convention of young business owners aged 18-39 and the organizations that support them. It was established with the aim of championing the importance of young entrepreneurs to the G20 member nations and to share examples and practices.
He sees the Sept. 7-8 summit that takes place just after the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China as a great opportunity to grow contacts for his Halifax-based business that fabricates portable and custom displays.
“I’m going to try and shake as many hands as I can – try to stay connected,’’ he says.
Sean received the selection to be part of a team of 22 entrepreneurs representing Canada at the G20 YEA after taking a rigorous application process.
He wants to make the most of the experience.
He says work is already underway on developing policy such as calling on G20 governments to implement a consistent and streamlined Young Entrepreneur Visa program across the G20 that would basically enable a person to test his or her business in any of the G20 nations for up to two years.
He hopes to share the connections, resources and knowledge he gains at the summit.
Sean also plans to continue working with his brother to take an aggressive but realistic approach to expanding their company.
“You can’t grow big over night,’’ he says.
“You start to grow incrementally.’’
