Donna Fenn


Rochelle Behrens is Bracing Herself For the "O" Effect

Life is going to get a lot more interesting tomorrow for Rochelle Behrens, the 28 year-old designer of ...  Read story

Social Coupon Wars Heat Up Between Groupon and LivingSocial

Get ready for a battle for the hearts and minds of social coupon-loving consumers everywhere as these two young companies duke it out for market share with t...  Read story

Happy National Entrepreneurs' Day!

Last May, we told you about how Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, the founders of Grasshopper Group, had launched a Twitter campaign to try to convince Pres...  Read story

In Defense of Entrepreneurial Passion

Who knew that passion could be such a controversial topic? But thanks to my blogging partner, Scott Gerber,Read story

Is GenY a Teacup Generation?

Last week, at the Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces Leadership C...  Read story

How to Forecast Sales in an Uncertain Economy

You can't figure out what you can spend without knowing what you're bringing in. Here are tips to take the guess work out of revenue projections.  Read story

How to Manage a Sales Pipeline

Building and managing a sales pipeline can be critical to a small business's success.  Read story

Living Social and Urban Escapes: A 30 Under 30 Marriage

Ever since Dan Schawbel' s Read story

Welcome to a New and Improved Entrepreneurial Generation!

I've learned a lot since I first started writing about young entrepreneurs five years ago, but the most important lessons all revolve around the theme of ...  Read story

The Weirdest Place to Find a Sales Lead

You should always be on the lookout for qualified sales leads. Even, apparently, in the ladies' room.  Read story

7 Common Sales Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

Don't overlook the basic principles of sales management or you may set yourself up for problems.  Read story

How to Manage a One-Person Sales Force

Is your sales force an army of one (namely you)? If that's the case, here are 10 tips to make sure you do the job right.  Read story

10 Ways to Get More Sales From Existing Customers

If you are looking to increase your revenue per customer, here are some tips on getting your sales staff focused on inside sales, upselling, and marketing ad...  Read story

Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson, Founders of FEED Projects

The former president's niece embraces social entrepreneurship with a growing line of bags sold online and at Whole Foods.  Watch video

Jack Abraham, Founder of Milo.com

The San Francisco start-up Milo.com tracks 2.8 million products across 50,000 retail stores. "Amazon and eBay are Web 1.0," scoffs founder Jack Abraham.  Watch video

Tyler Balliet and Morgan First, Founders of The Second Glass

Balliet and First loved wine but felt that no one was marketing it properly to their generation. Their company connects wine sellers to young consumers thro...  Watch video

Fraser Doherty, Founder of Super Jam

A 21-year-old Scot takes his Gran's recipe and uses it to disrupt the jam market.  Watch video

A Strong Sense of Community

Many of the young entrepreneurs who appear on Inc.com's 2010 30 Under 30 list embody their generational fascination with all things social.  Read story

Dan Schawbel, Founder of Millennial Branding

The founder of Boston-based Millennial Branding is the self-styled king of personal branding.  Watch video

Sean Whalen, Founder of AlterG

AlterG founder Sean Whalen brought to market an anti-gravity treadmill used by top athletes. Now he's going after the medical market.  Watch video

Ooshma Garg, Founder of Anapata

Founder Ooshma Garg named her Palo Alto start-up after a Swahili word that means "find, attain, and achieve."  Watch video

Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Founders of Venmo

Square has drawn a lot of buzz to the mobile-payments business. Venmo's founders hope to draw on that as they build their company.  Watch video

Tim O'Shaughnessy and Eddie Frederick, Founders of LivingSocial

With the acquisition of a little company called Buy a Friend a Drink, the online-bargain site LivingSocial came together in its present form.  Watch video

Young Entrepreneurs, Cool Products

The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products including bespoke suits, anti-gravity treadmi...  View slideshow

Why You Should Love Failure

I spent part of last week at a conference called MultiMania in Kortrijk, Belgium, speaking a...  Read story

Training Young Entrepreneurs, One Lemonade Stand at a Time

Gather a group of successful CEOs in a room and ask how many of them had lemonade stands when they were kids.  According to Michael Holthouse, the fo...  Read story

What Happens When 25 Unreasonable Fellows Get Together?

The Unreasonable Institute , the Read story

An Incubator of Her Own

Genevieve Thiers, CEO of Sittercity.com , an Read story

HBO's Young Entrepreneurs are (Adorably) Clueless

HBO's How to Make it in Americ...  Read story

An Incubator for Unreasonable Ideas

Who else but a group of GenYers would have the audacity to christen a new not-for-profit venture "...  Read story

HBO Launches Series on Young Entrepreneurs

If you ever doubted that it's incredibly hip to be a young entrepreneur these days, consider that HBO is about to launch a new Entouragesque series about ...  Read story

Tom Friedman Gets Why Youth Entrepreneurship Matters

If you missed Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in The New York Times yesterday on why the Obama administration needs to focus on youth entrepreneurship, please r...  Read story

Happy Holidays, GenY Style

It's the time of year when our mailboxes and our inboxes are flooded with generic greetings -- electronic and paper -- from the people with whom we've don...  Read story

Is Milo the Next Mint?

The ink was barely dry on the check from Intuit when Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer, flush from the software giant's rec...  Read story

Snoop Dogg Speaks to Young Entrepreneurs

To kick off Global Entrepreneurship Week , I spent the mornin...  Read story

Case Study: Finding the Right Price for a Hot Product

Luke Skurman's quirky college guides were a big hit. The problem was getting readers to pay. What if he gave the content away?  Read story

The Upstarts Are Coming

In an excerpt from Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success , Donna Fenn explo...  Read story

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

Despite the economic gloom and doom, the honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are building wildly successful ventures with the help of their peers, paren...  Read story

Getting By with a Little Help from Their Friends

Many young entrepreneurs enlist partners to start their companies, rather than trying to go it alone. So what's the downside?  Read story

An Upstart's Debut on the Inc. 500

When I talk about my new book, Upstarts: How GenY Entreprene...  Read story