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Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

How This Kid Made $170 Million in Two Years

Aaron Patzer launched Mint.com in 2007. Two years later, Intuit bought the company for $170 million. So how did Patzer do it?  View slideshow

Best Lemonade Stand Winners 

Meet the young faces behind two of the most successful lemonade stands, as Inc. announces the winners of the Best Lemonade Stand in America contest. Movin...  Watch video

30 Under 30: Behind The Scenes 

Go behind the scenes with Inc. Magazine at the 2009 30 Under 30 photo shoot. Featuring interviews with the founders of ModCloth, Thrillist, and IdeaPaint.  Watch video

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: 352 Media

One entrepreneur's college start-up was never expected to expand past the walls of his frat house. Now it is doing business with Microsoft and other large co...  Read more

How to Start a T-shirt Company

Great designs are not enough, according to Johnny Earle of Johnny Cupcakes. You also need lots of buzz and exclusivity  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: mental_floss magazine

Two Duke University students with a penchant for trivia started their own magazine geared towards factoid junkies just like themselves, of course.  Read more

30 Under 30: Making It 

For our top, young entrepreneurs, success came early but it wasn't always easy.   Watch video

Young, Free and an Entrepreneur 

For these top young entrepreneurs the freedom to build the company they want, to push their boundaries, and to succeed on their own terms has inspired the...  Watch video

10 Questions for Kevin Rose

The Digg.com founder shares his start-up advice.  Read more

Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet

Digg founder Kevin Rose is having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul.  Read more

Cool, Determined & Under 30

They are collaborative, creative, and -- above all -- confident. And all of them were born after October 31, 1978.  Read more

The Dos and Don’ts of Dorm Room Enterprise

Thinking about starting a college business? Learn from these Inc. 5000 CEOs that did it big.  Read more

The Customer is the Company

Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve...  Read more

30 Under 30: The Innovator 

Ben Kaufman founded a successful iPod accessory maker, Mophie while in college, but it was some last minute inspiration at a trade booth really made waves...  Watch video

30 Under 30: The Granola Guys 

Jason Osborn and Jason Wright started Feed Granola Co. out of their New York apartment. Today their healthy snacks can be found on the shelves of Whole Fo...  Watch video

30 Under 30: Free Parking! 

Not quite. But BestParking.com founder Benjamin Sann helps customers find the cheapest parking rates in some of the nation's biggest cities.   Watch video

30 Under 30: The Cookie King 

Seth Berkowitz started a late-night cookie-delivery service out of his dorm room. Today, Insomnia Cookies delivers fresh-baked goodies to hungry college s...  Watch video

A 20-Year-Old Innovator

Ben Kaufman took the tech world by storm with his line of iPod accessories -- by allowing customers to design them. But his real plan is to revolutionize the...  Read more

The Coolest Little Start-Up in America

For TerraCycle's Tom Szaky, nothing could be cooler--or sweeter--than selling garbage packaged in garbage.  Read more

The VC in My Dorm Room

Business school students have gone beyond starting their own companies. Now they're funding one another's ventures.  Read more

The Kid Behind a $170 Million Website

Aaron Patzer started Mint.com because he was frustrated with Intuit's Quicken. Two years later, Intuit intends to cut him a very big check.  Read more

How Two Friends Built a $100 Million Company

How Method's founders reinvented and industry and built a $100 million company.  View slideshow

Fountain of Youth: The Under 30 Hall of Fame

Some of the biggest names in business got their start before their 30th birthday.  View slideshow