Young Entrepreneurs


Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

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

Meet the 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs Under 30, 2011 edition

They're making the hottest apps on your iPhone, and shirts that don't gap; encouraging you to eat healthier, and date smarter; fighting government censorship...  View slideshow

30 Under 30 2011: Cool Companies' Apps

Mobile devices now touch every aspect of our lives, helping us connect our digital world to the physical one. Our cool companies' apps do everything from sho...  View slideshow

The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr

As a kid, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, taught himself to code and dropped out of high school. Now 24 years old, Karp runs his company his way—and ref...  Read more

How to Build an Empire

David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim stuck to a positive message, and made Uglydolls into a household name.  Read more

Never Giving Up on Her Soapsuds

When she wasn't satisfied with her career choice, Anne-Marie Faiola decided to make a business out of what she knew how to do best: Make soap.  Read more

Editor's Letter: Organizing Principles

How nonprofits can find the right business structure  Read more

Would You Take Business Advice From a College Student?

Why Jen O’Neal, founder of Tripping, created an advisory board of young people  Read more

10 Things I Learned From Failure

Every entrepreneur has made a series of mistakes or been subject to failures along his or her entrepreneurial journey. These setbacks, though painful, wil...  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Tagged

It isn't the next Facebook or Myspace, but this social network is giving users some of the Internet candy they crave: games, new connections, and even a hot ...  Read more

The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 w...  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Technology Venturing

Helping to turn university technologies into sustainable businesses  Read more

What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

Samit Gupta was pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering—until he took this course.  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship

A class that brings together 485 students to work on a series of new ventures  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Mayfield Fellows

Providing students with a front-row seat to all the drama that Silicon Valley has to offer  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurial Selling

A course that customizes material for the sales-phobic CEO  Read more

What the Students Say: Entrepreneurial Selling

Entrepreneur Phillip Leslie found himself sweating bullets in Craig Wortmann's popular class.  Read more

Best Courses 2011: The Launch Pad

A novel program run at a college career center  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces

Learning how to serve customers in emerging markets  Read more

What the Students Say: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces

Things look different when you finally meet your customers, as student Jenna Goebig learned.  Read more

Best Courses 2011: New Ventures

A program that places students in local angel groups  Read more

Best Courses 2011: NUvention

A group of classes that focuses on three fast-growing verticals: medical devices, energy, and Internet businesses  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans With Disabilities

A professor works with disabled veterans to help them build their futures.  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas

A course that focuses on people problems instead of the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta  Read more

A Brewing Feud at Microsoft?

Paul Allen's unflattering portrayal of Bill Gates is stoking controversy, a new cohort of young (and rich) entrepreneurs discover charity, and the rest of th...  Read more

Why I Love Negative Comments

In business, it is everyone's responsibility to be a harsh critic.  Read more

Jessica Kim of BabbaCo 

Jessica Kim, formerly a brand manager at Kraft Foods, is founder and CEO of BabbaCo.  Watch video

Great Entrepreneurial Fallacies

Myths of starting your own business exposed. Plus, is the Supreme Court getting tough on business?  Read more

How Hipmunk Learned to Respect Its Users

Hipmunk's Alexis Ohanian's site-building philosophy centers around loving users. That's because his last company, Reddit, was made by them.  Read more