CALEXICO — Carlos Olguin, owner of Creative Boost, was one of the eleven participants of the Imperial Valley Small Business Development Center’s inaugural Young Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Program.
The three-week, 27-hour program — that started this year to develop a new generation of entrepreneurship and focus on the youth — was designed for those students who are not necessarily seeking higher education but want to start a business of their own.
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