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Young Entrepreneurs, Cool Products

The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products including bespoke suits, anti-gravity treadmi...  View slideshow

Being LeBron's Partner

Maverick Carter talks about managing the brand that is LeBron James.  Read more

The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv

Justin Kan, the 27-year-old co-founder of Justin.tv, doesn't mind his lack of work-life balance.  Read more

Student Loan Breaks for Entrepreneurs

Why the federal government and lenders should cut recent grads some slack.  Read more

Finding the Bill Gates of Sixth Grade

Young people are excited by the idea of making money, but few schools bother to nurture this interest. This should change, with entrepreneurship taught to st...  Read more

Why You Should Love Failure

I spent part of last week at a conference called MultiMania in Kortrijk, Belgium, speaking a...  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: AArrow Advertising

How an 18-year-old kid took $500 and built a guerilla marketing agency with franchises in 30 cities and $4.5 million in revenue.  Read more

Budding Entrepreneurs Score in Sam's Club Giveaway

The member-voted charitable campaign awarded Junior Achievement with $500,000 to support entrepreneurial education for young adults.  Read more

Training Young Entrepreneurs, One Lemonade Stand at a Time

Gather a group of successful CEOs in a room and ask how many of them had lemonade stands when they were kids.  According to Michael Holthouse, the fo...  Read more

6 Lessons from World Entrepreneurship Day

The future is mobile, at least according to the entrepreneurs who gathered to mark the second annual World Entrepreneurship Day at the United Nations in New ...  Read more

What Happens When 25 Unreasonable Fellows Get Together?

The Unreasonable Institute , the Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Smashing Ideas

How three cartoon animators built an interactive branding company from their basements that's growing over 50 percent annually.  Read more

An Incubator of Her Own

Genevieve Thiers, CEO of Sittercity.com , an Read more

Putting Longhorn Entrepreneurs on the Fast Track

The University of Texas launches Texas Venture Labs program to speed the start-up process for student entrepreneurs.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Twenty20

How a pair of skiers made it easy to shoot HD video from helmets, goggles, handlebars, and motorcyclesâ€"and how they tripled their business in a year doing it.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Short's Brewing Company

How the owners of this small-town brewery put their creative taste buds to work and went from 20 vendors to 1,000 in a year.  Read more

2009 College Start-ups: Where Are They Now?

Last year we profiled a handful of the coolest start-ups on college campus. This month--after a year of change, growth, and (in some cases) starting complet...  View slideshow

Film Documents Young Business Dreams

Mary Mazzio’s documentary Ten9Eight follows several high school teens as they compete in a nationwide business competition.  Read more

Entrepreneurs Participate in 'Mentoring Madness'

Snoop Dogg advises young entrepreneurs to "study what's missing" in the marketplace.  Read more

Global Entrepreneurship Week Kicks Off

Thom Ruhe from the Kauffman Foundation talks about Global Entrepreneurship Week, which will be marked by more than 25,000 events worldwide.  Read more

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typica...  Read more

Students Win Money for Best Business Plan

NFTE selects the winners of it's annual youth entrepreneurship challenge; winners to meet President Obama.  Read more

Jamail Larkins, Aerospace Mogul in the Making

Jamail Larkins took his first flying lesson at age 12—and has been hooked ever since. Today, at 25, he runs a $5.8 million aviation firm.  Read more

Who's Next

They are transforming the Web, empowering other start-ups, and turning your conference room into one big whiteboard. A sneak preview of the latest generation...  Read more

The Upstarts Are Coming

In an excerpt from Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success , Donna Fenn explo...  Read more

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

Despite the economic gloom and doom, the honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are building wildly successful ventures with the help of their peers, paren...  Read more

Getting By with a Little Help from Their Friends

Many young entrepreneurs enlist partners to start their companies, rather than trying to go it alone. So what's the downside?  Read more

Gen Y Entrepreneurs: More Likely to Succeed in Recession

Youngsters are more optimistic about their companies' success during economic recovery.  Read more

30 Under 30 2009: ModCloth - Susan Gregg Koger, Eric Koger

Susan Gregg Koger and Eric Koger took a love of vintage clothing and some tech know-how and built a popular online retail site. The husband-wife team is expe...  Read more