Meet This Year's Top Young Entrepreneurs
They’re among the most intriguing young business owners in America—and they’ve barely gotten started. Read more
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Jordan Goldman, Founder of Unigo
Searching for the right college can be stressful, frustrating, and expensive. All those overnight visits; all those hours in the car with mom and d... Read more
Adam Witty, Founder of Advantage Media Group
When Adam Witty was eight years old, his father was laid off from his job at AIG. "Rather than find another job, he decided he wa... Read more
David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky, Founders of AnchorFree
In the midst of the Egyptian revolution, David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky, co-founders of ... Read more
Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk
On a recent Thursday , Hipmunk's CEO, Adam Goldstein, laid out his travel plans.... Read more
Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Founders of Dropbox
At a Boston bus station in early 2007, Drew Houston opened his laptop to finish some work while waiting for his bus. As he turned on his computer, ... Read more
Gianna Driver, Founder of Gianna Fair Trade
When you buy a silk Goddess Scarf from the online retailer Gianna Fair Trade, not only are you getting a stylish new accessory, you're also helping... Read more
Jennifer Schnidman Medbery, Founder of Drop the Chalk
Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attract... Read more
Matt Lauzon, Founder of Gemvara
If Matt Lauzon has his way, his online custom jewelry company will one day "take on Tiffany head-to-head." That may seem like a bold predicti... Read more
Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Founders of Birchbox
What if everyone had a friend who was a beauty editor—someone to sort through the gazillion products and tell you not just what’s best,... Read more
Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, Founders of Grasshopper
Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser met as undergrads at Babson College while both were managing businesses they started in high school. One of their... Read more
Jason Ross, Founder of JackThreads
Jason Ross has always been the person his friends would turn to for the latest on cool things. And thanks to his Mom, Ross was always a discount sh... Read more
Hussein Fazal and Kristaps Ronka, Founders of AdParlor
When Facebook launched its API in 2007, allowing developers to build games and applications for the social medium, Kristaps Ronka and Hussein Fazal... Read more
Matt Mickiewicz, Co-founder of 99designs
When business owners want a new logo, website, or graphic design work, it's often an arduous and intimidating process that can involve filtering th... Read more
Christopher Kelly and Ryan Simonetti, Founders of Sentry Centers
Two college buddies teamed up to take unused space in office buildings, renovate it, and transform it into off-site meeting destinations. Read more
Rochelle Behrens, Founder of The Shirt by Rochelle Behrens
When Rochelle Behrens was a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm, she'd pin her conservative button-down shirts from the inside so ... Read more
Daniel Gomez Iniguez, Co-founder of Solben
In order to get his high school diploma in 2008, Daniel Gomez Iniguez was required to complete a research project. He had no intention of creating ... Read more
Brynn Jinnett, Founder of The Refine Method
Want a ballerina body? "Back away from the barre," says Brynn Jinnett, 27, a Harvard University-educated former professional ballerina who danced i... Read more
Sheena Lindahl, Arel Moodie, and Michael Simmons, Founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons met their third day of college and started dating on their fourth. Both are business-oriented by nature; Li... Read more
Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci, Founders of GroupMe
Last May, Jared Hecht's fiancée was heading to a music festival in Colorado and complaining that she and her friends had no reliable way to ... Read more
Ankur Jain, Founder of Kairos Society
When Ankur Jain entered Wharton's undergraduate business program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, he immediately wanted to start a busine... Read more
Christopher Kelly and Adriann Wanner, Founders of evoJets
Need to get from Aspen , Colorado to Miami? How about Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the person to call is Adriann Wanne... Read more
Top Young Entrepreneurs of 2011: 30 Under 30
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Misa Chien and Jennifer Green, Founders of Nom Nom Truck
What do hundreds of dollars worth of parking tickets, people cued up on Southern California streets, and Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches all have in ... Read more
Matthew Corrin, Founder of Freshii
Matthew Corrin's aha moment came one afternoon six years ago in a Midtown Manhattan deli. He was 23. He was hungry. And he was sick of eatin... Read more
Adam Sachs, Kevin Owocki, and Dan Osit, Founders of Ignighter
In April, University of Pennsylvania hosted the 15th annual Wharton India Economic Forum, an elite conference on growth opportunities in India. Amo... Read more
Jessica Mah and Andy Su, Founders of inDinero
This year Jessica Mah , CEO of inDinero , a maker of online money-management tools for small busi... Read more
Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, Founders of Quora
While working at Facebook in 2009, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever had a question: Why isn't there a place on the Internet where a question can b... Read more
Seth Priebatsch, Founder of Scvngr and LevelUp
Seth Priebatsch , a lanky 22-year-old in a fireball-orange polo with matching orange wraparound shades perched on his crown, bounded onto the stage ... Read more
30 Under 30 Honorees: America's Top Young Entrepreneurs [Videos]
30 Under 30: In Video Show Us What You've Got. That's what we ask... Read more
What Does it Take?
A look behind the scenes at what it took to make it onto this year's list, and at some of the emerging trends it illuminates about young entrepreneurship today. Read more
Jason Baptiste and Andres Barreto, Founders of Onswipe
Jason Baptiste is nothing if not confident . "We're sitting between two huge shifts," he told the audience at TechStars's Demo Day on April 11. "The... Read more
Alexa Andrzejewksi, Soraya Darabi, and Ted Grubb, Founders of Foodspotting
Alexa Andrzejewski returned to San Francisco from a vacation to Japan with an idea: a field guide to global food. To learn about bootstrapping her ... Read more
30 Under 30 2011: Product Slideshow
The young entrepreneurs on our 30 Under 30 list make and sell some of the coolest products we've seen. At the same time, they're making a global social impac... View slideshow
Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World
Ankur Jain is the founder of the Kairos Society, a network of college entrepreneurs dedicated to changing the world through business. And socializing. Which ... Read more
