Young Entrepreneurs


Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

Best Advice I Ever Got: Jeff Berger

Jeff Berger, CEO of Doostang.com, didn't care much for school. But these three real-world lessons proved priceless.  Read more

Tim Ferriss's Next Big Project: Dinner

Tim Ferriss's latest book, The 4-Hour Chef , includes not only classic and non-traditional recipes (roasted squirrel, anyone?) but also a formula for...  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Allison Lami Sawyer

The co-founder of Rebellion Photonics, doesn't traffic in 'advice'--at least, not the kind usually doled out to women in business. For her, the criticisms ar...  Read more

Older Entrepreneurs Get a Bum Rap

One prominent VC has publically announced his preference for young entrepreneurs, but do the facts support this bias for fresh-faced founders?  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Chris Mirabile

Hotlist co-founder Chris Mirabile isn't new to the start-up world, but building his latest venture tested his mettle. These pieces of advice saw him through it.  Read more

Airbnb Is Changing Travel | Company of the Year Runner-Up

Can you believe the home-rental site that lists properties in 30,000 cities across 192 countries once had trouble raising $20,000? Now it is valued at $2.5 b...  Read more

12 Ways to Unwind During the Busy Holiday Season

For start-ups, especially in the retail space, now is the time to ramp-up sales--not to relax. But that doesn't mean your team can't find time for a little h...  Read more

3 Start-up Secrets From Jerry Maguire

The founder and CEO of ShadesDaddy.com learned a thing or two about business from the (fictional) Dicky Fox. Here are Pablo Palatnik's favorite pieces of sta...  Read more

Take Coffee Grounds. Add Spores. See Success Sprout.

With their popular mushroom kits, Back to the Roots' founders Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez are restoring the connection between people and food.  Read more

3 Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Starting Up

Founders look back at the biggest slip-ups they made when starting their companies--so you can avoid their mistakes.  Read more

10 Design Tips for Tiny Offices

From knocking down walls to greeting customers with candy in hand, members of the YEC offer their best advice for sprucing up even the smallest start-up offi...  Read more

Silicon Valley's Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

Don't get an MBA. Don't even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills.  Read more

The Way I Work: Aaron Levie, Box

Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old CEO of Box, is on a mission to double annual sales and get stuff done--even if it means long hours and no vacation days.  Read more

13 Tips for Starting Up in a New Industry

Don't be afraid to explore foreign territory. We asked successful young entrepreneurs for their most poignant pieces of advice for founders starting up in an...  Read more

Motivate Millennials: Take a Cue From Video Games

In my view, millennials are no more difficult to manage than past generations. Just look at the job from their perspective.  Read more

Examining the Thiel Fellowship: Is It Worthwhile?

The Thiel Fellowship is looking for its next batch of 24 college students to pay $100,000 to drop out of college. But has the model been a success?  Read more

Why It's Lonely at the Top--and What To Do About It

Even success comes with its share of challenges. How to prepare for, and face them.  Read more

Richard Branson's Student-Debt Plan

At a time when student-loan debt is crippling the American Dream, the British mogul has a big idea on how entrepreneurship can fix it.  Read more

Financial Planning For the 99 Percent

Alexa von Tobel thinks her company, LearnVest, can be the CFP for the masses. And now she has the federal stamp of approval to accomplish just that.  Read more

Secret: Your Age Doesn't Matter

Hey, baby face. Think you're being judged? You're not. In fact, you may be at an advantage when starting a business.  Read more

Entrepreneurship Education for the Jobless

A nonprofit is helping transform the unemployed into entrepreneurs through simple but effective training. File that under both 'good deeds' and 'smart econom...  Read more

Richard Branson's Advice to a (Very) Young Entrepreneur

The Virgin Group founder offers advice to a kid, and it's advice that could help entrepreneurs of all ages.  Read more

Columbia University Launches Entrepreneurship Lab

After graduation, Columbia MBA students who are starting their own businesses will now have a new place to call home.  Read more

Traits of a Truly Entrepreneurial Mindset

E-Myth author Michael E. Gerber says that starting a business is like writing a book, because you must create a business that says something important...  Read more

How to Get Your Parents to Support Your Start-Up Dreams

You're going to be an entrepreneur? Now you just have to convince your parents. Here's how to break the news.  Read more

Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Terrible Role Model

According to a new analysis, if you want to run a tech company, you shouldn't drop out of college.  Read more

A Gen-Xer's Rant: What's Wrong with My Millennial Employees?

Doesn't anyone under 30 want to work? One Gen-X business owner laments an all-too-common workplace generation gap.  Read more

How We Market to 'The Man'

One morning the young founders of Blank Label woke up and realized everything had to change. The strategy paid off--to the tune of $1 million in revenue.  Read more

Taking On the Entire Banking System

Dwolla isn't just taking on PayPal. Ben Milne's start-up is disrupting the whole world of banking.  Read more

Inside the Radical Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs

The Unreasonable Institute incubates for-profit social enterprises that compete for the program by raising their own tuition via online crowdfunding.  Read more

Introducing the 2 Young Men Who Made Pinterest

Pinterest, the beautiful, wildly popular, image-sharing site, was founded by three friends with vastly different skills and interests. Here's how it grew to ...  Read more

The Law Is on Our Side (Because We Helped Write It)

Jessica Scorpio struggled for years to get her company, Getaround, off the ground, largely due to one massive roadblock.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Rebeca Hwang

The co-founder and CEO of YouNoodle, explains how simply reframing the problem--and your perspective on it--can change your business and your life.  Read more

5 Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

No matter how successful your business is, if you don't come to terms with these five truths about being an entrepreneur then you're doomed to be disappointed.  Read more

Breaking the Rules: The Young Entrepreneur Who Squatted at AOL

Eric Simons spent two cash-strapped months living inside AOL's headquarters while trying to build his start-up. He explains how he played outside of the rules.  Read more