Young Entrepreneurs


Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

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

5 Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

No matter how successful your business is, if you don't come to terms with these five truths about being an entrepreneur then you're doomed to be disappointed.  Read more

Breaking the Rules: The Young Entrepreneur Who Squatted at AOL

Eric Simons spent two cash-strapped months living inside AOL's headquarters while trying to build his start-up. He explains how he played outside of the rules.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Timothy Sykes

Timothy Sykes, the CEO and co-founder of Profit.ly, has had a wild entrepreneurial ride. Here, he shares the key advice that helped him learn to appreciate f...  Read more

Would You Work for a 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur?

These UConn MBA students are! Mallory Kievman's hiccup remedy has garnered support from Startup America and the University of Connecticut business school.  Read more

How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-...  Read more

Will Investors Bet on These Entrepreneurs at the Kentucky Derby?

Startup America's Scott Case has a plan to introduce young entrepreneurs to the politicians and investors on Derby Day. Here's how he's doing it.  Read more

Texas Business School Teaching Door-to-Door Sales

Grad students in Texas study entrepreneurship--and learn some tough lessons about sales.  Read more

How We Founded myYearbook

It's one of the 25 most-trafficked webites in the U.S., and it was founded by a pair of siblings in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Catherine and Geoff Cook explain ...  Read more

8 Ways to Keep Creativity Fresh While Scaling a Start-up

Ideas can grow stale once a start-up scales. We asked successful young entrepreneurs why its important to continue sparking creativity while a company is gro...  Read more

How to Build a Loyal Brand Ambassador Following 

Get a community of ambassadors talking about and advocating for your brand. Tips from Naveen Jain, founder of Intelius, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Youn...  Watch video

What College Students Can Teach Entrepreneurs

Five ways I was recently amazed by undergrads competing in a business plan competition at Texas Christian University.  Read more

Make Business School Pay Off: 3 Ways

If you've defied those who say MBAs and start-up dreams don't mix and enrolled anyway, a successful entrepreneur offers tips to make the experience pay off.  Read more

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Founders of Instagram

Two Stanford fellows built a pared-down photo app into a $1 billion idea. Here's the original story on Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's early struggles.  Read more

Young & Female in Start-up Central

A founder of Women 2.0 explains how the start-up scene is evolving for women and offers networking advice for aspiring female founders.  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Spirit 

The designer likes to talk to other business owners who share her drive.  Watch video

10 Signs Your Marketing is Totally Outdated

Marketing isn't only about what you're pitching, but also about how you deliver the message. We've asked a slate of successful young entrepreneurs what not t...  Read more

Teen Entrepreneurs Win Big

A growing number of young entrepreneurs are launching serious businesses with great potential--and many of them aren’t even old enough to drive.  Read more

Is This Island Paradise for Entrepreneurs?

What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus? The answer offers a trickle of optimism.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Shama Kabani

The president of the Marketing Zen Group explains how being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed, and other great advice she's received.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Dave Kerpen

The CEO of Likeable Media shares 3 pearls of wisdom he received as an up-and-coming entrepreneur.  Read more

Young Entrepreneur, Older Employees: How to Cope

Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation.  Read more

7 Free Apps That Will Make Life Better

These free (or next to free) apps promise to make your life easier.  Read more

Leave the Nest to Start Your Company? 8 Signs You're Ready

Daydreaming about leaving your day job? See if you fit the profile of a successful entrepreneur--or if you're better off staying where you are.  Read more

Fred Wilson's Latest Advice for Start-up Ninjas

When the Union Square Ventures VC showed up at Jeff Bussgang's HBS class, he advised start-up students that their new ventures should be hunch-driven early o...  Read more

Raise Your Hand if You Want to Be an Executive

Anyone? Anyone? A new survey suggests the allure of C-suite positions has washed away. What's cool in 2012? You guessed it: entrepreneurship.  Read more

Inside Chicago's Start-up High School

How an unusual inner-city charter school plans to groom the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.  Read more

How London is Luring Start-ups

Welcome to the "Silicon Roundabout," which is luring young companies with government funding, Google-sponsored office space, and a new start-up competition.  Read more