Young Entrepreneurs


Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

Young Entrepreneur, Older Employees: How to Cope

By Jessica Stillman |  Mar 9, 2012

Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation.  Read more


7 Free Apps That Will Make Life Better

By Janine Popick |  Mar 6, 2012

These free (or next to free) apps promise to make your life easier.  Read more


Leave the Nest to Start Your Company? 8 Signs You're Ready

By Marla Tabaka |  Mar 5, 2012

Daydreaming about leaving your day job? See if you fit the profile of a successful entrepreneur--or if you're better off staying where you are.  Read more


Fred Wilson's Latest Advice for Start-up Ninjas

By Jeff Bussgang |  Mar 1, 2012

When the Union Square Ventures VC showed up at Jeff Bussgang's HBS class, he advised start-up students that their new ventures should be hunch-driven early o...  Read more


Raise Your Hand if You Want to Be an Executive

By Jessica Stillman |  Feb 24, 2012

Anyone? Anyone? A new survey suggests the allure of C-suite positions has washed away. What's cool in 2012? You guessed it: entrepreneurship.  Read more


Inside Chicago's Start-up High School

By Christina DesMarais |  Feb 22, 2012

How an unusual inner-city charter school plans to groom the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.  Read more


How London is Luring Start-ups

By Jessica Stillman |  Feb 17, 2012

Welcome to the "Silicon Roundabout," which is luring young companies with government funding, Google-sponsored office space, and a new start-up competition.  Read more


What Motivates Tomorrow's Great Entrepreneurs?

By Abigail Tracy |  Feb 16, 2012

A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship.  Read more


What's for Dinner? Ask These 7 Start-ups

By Tim Donnelly |  Feb 7, 2012

These hot new companies are looking to change the way we eat, and are bringing in lots of dough from investors.  Read more


5 Ways to Look More Professional

By Geoffrey James |  Feb 7, 2012

Sometimes little things make a big difference. Here are some easy ways to get a competitive edge.  Read more


Is an MBA Worth the Cost?

By Geoffrey James |  Feb 6, 2012

An MBA can cost you upward of $100,000. Will the investment really to pay off?  Read more


21 Gems of Facebook's S-1 That Will Boggle Your Mind

By Eric Markowitz and Kimberly Weisul |  Feb 2, 2012

Private jets? $200 million paintings? Zuckerberg's salary? Here are few things the financial analysts won't be talking about this morning.  Read more


The Best Degree for Start-up Success

By Jessica Stillman |  Feb 2, 2012

A new white paper asserts that if you want to build a company, an advanced degree in a subject like engineering beats an MBA any day.  Read more


Bring Out the Nerf Guns at Orientation

By Seth Priebatsch |  Feb 1, 2012

When on-boarding new hires, we follow these three guidelines to get our employees behind our (epic) mission, and understand our quirky culture.  Read more


Inside Facebook's S-1: What Investors Are Saying

By Eric Markowitz |  Feb 1, 2012

We dug into the IPO filing. Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? What does it mean for capital markets? Is the social network just managing expectations?  Read more


How to Retain Gen-Y Job Hoppers? Don't Bother

By Jessica Stillman |  Jan 24, 2012

Young people these days are notoriously fickle when it comes to their employers. How should companies lock down talent? Maybe they shouldn't.  Read more


"Owner:" Popular Gen Y Job Title on Facebook

By Jessica Stillman |  Jan 9, 2012

Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generat...  Read more


Pleasing the Socially Conscious Consumer

By Jessica Stillman |  Dec 30, 2011

A shift in Gen Y customers' expectations mean businesses need to do more than just make money. Or does it?  Read more


How to Get an MIT Education for Peanuts

By Jessica Stillman |  Dec 23, 2011

It takes time to learn all the skills needed to be a successful founder, but there are low-cost shortcuts available, including MIT's new online certificate p...  Read more


How to Become an Agent for Change

By Abram Brown |  Dec 22, 2011

Few leaders know how to manage change at their company. Learn how to become one of the few.  Read more


The Way I Work: Amos Winbush III, CyberSynchs

By April Joyner |  May 28, 2012

He seemed destined for music stardom, but instead Amos Winbush III started CyberSynchs, a $13.5 million-a-year New York City-based mobile phone backup company.  Read more


How An NBA Ban Fueled Our Business

By Abram Brown |  Dec 8, 2011

Last year, the NBA banned start-up APL's innovative basketball shoes and sales took off. Now what?  Read more


Case Study: Josh Levy and Ross Cohen of BeenVerified

By Issie Lapowsky |  Dec 8, 2011

After 11 months and $550,000, they had gotten nowhere. Could they really gamble what was left on a hunch?  Read more


30 Under 30: 2011 Party

By Tim Rice |  Dec 5, 2011

This year's honorees celebrated their accomplishments and shared their experiences of making it onto the list.  Watch video


Did Your Parents Make You an Entrepreneur?

By Jessica Stillman |  Dec 2, 2011

This generation is mad about starting small companies. Could parenting be behind the entrepreneurial drive?  Read more