Young Entrepreneurs


Recent Young Entrepreneurs Articles

Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World

By Burt Helm |  May 28, 2012

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 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs

By Inc. staff |  Jun 23, 2011

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

By Inc. staff |  Jun 22, 2011

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

By Liz Welch |  May 28, 2012

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

By Nicole Carter |  May 23, 2011

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

By Courtney Rubin |  May 23, 2011

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

By Jane Berentson |  May 28, 2012

How nonprofits can find the right business structure  Read more


Would You Take Business Advice From a College Student?

By Jennifer Alsever |  May 28, 2012

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


10 Things I Learned From Failure

By Scott Gerber |  Apr 29, 2011

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

By Christine Lagorio |  Apr 4, 2011

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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

Helping to turn university technologies into sustainable businesses  Read more


What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


Best Courses 2011: Mayfield Fellows

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurial Selling

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


What the Students Say: Entrepreneurial Selling

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


Best Courses 2011: The Launch Pad

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

A novel program run at a college career center  Read more


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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

Learning how to serve customers in emerging markets  Read more


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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


Best Courses 2011: New Ventures

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

A program that places students in local angel groups  Read more


Best Courses 2011: NUvention

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 28, 2012

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


A Brewing Feud at Microsoft?

By Eric Markowitz |  Mar 30, 2011

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