Secret: Your Age Doesn't Matter
Hey, baby face. Think you're being judged? You're not. In fact, you may be at an advantage when starting a business. Read more
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Entrepreneurship Education for the Jobless
A nonprofit is helping transform the unemployed into entrepreneurs through simple but effective training. File that under both 'good deeds' and 'smart econom... Read more
Richard Branson's Advice to a (Very) Young Entrepreneur
The Virgin Group founder offers advice to a kid, and it's advice that could help entrepreneurs of all ages. Read more
Columbia University Launches Entrepreneurship Lab
After graduation, Columbia MBA students who are starting their own businesses will now have a new place to call home. Read more
Traits of a Truly Entrepreneurial Mindset
E-Myth author Michael E. Gerber says that starting a business is like writing a book, because you must create a business that says something important... Read more
How to Get Your Parents to Support Your Start-Up Dreams
You're going to be an entrepreneur? Now you just have to convince your parents. Here's how to break the news. Read more
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
