Anshul Samar
Via: Elementeo - Injecting Fun Into Education
Business and Games Blog report "they only recently came across Elementeo, a project that combines chemistry and board games. Besides, the kid is priceless".
Mobilized by the latter, I've decided to further explore the subject.
For Anshul Samar, fun is thinking up an idea, creating a product based on it and selling it to the world.Business and Games Blog report "they only recently came across Elementeo, a project that combines chemistry and board games. Besides, the kid is priceless".
Mobilized by the latter, I've decided to further explore the subject.
Probably the youngest founder-CEO in the history of business, 13-year-old Samar is a seventh grader from Cupertino, California. He wants to “inject fun into education” by combining the elements of a fantasy wizard world with the textbook world, where fun and learning come together without clashing.
How did Samar get inspired to start the company? “Well, here I am, sitting in Silicon Valley where I constantly see all these adults going about and creating products. I didn't want the adults to have all the fun. :).”
So he created a fantasy role playing game that combines the rapturous teenage joys of competition and carnage with the exciting properties of the periodic table of chemical elements.
You command an army of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts — represented within a 66-card deck.
The fire and brimstone card is for “Sulfur
Your opponent has his own deck with the same number of cards. Your goal is to battle your competitor and reduce his IQ down to zero.
His goal is to reach $1 million in revenues by the end of his first year on the job, which is by summer of 2008. He’s seeking funding to mass produce his idea and has been attending entrepreneurship technology conferences to gain some visibility. Impressive, how he’s put together a sharp team which includes his 11 year old sister as the VP of Sales.