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
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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
Best Advice I Ever Got: Andrea Lake
Serial entrepreneur Andrea Lake, founder of StickerJunkie.com and YogaJunkie, skipped college in favor of starting companies--a lot of them. Here's what she'... 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
