7 Traits You Need if You Want to Be An Entrepreneur

7 Traits You Need if You Want to Be An Entrepreneur

This article was originally posted on garywhitehill.com As the global economy undergoes more changes (and it will continue to do so) even more people will choose to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Changes to corporate mindsets, downsizing and other upheavals in the “safe” world of formal employment are forcing many to embrace entrepreneurship, and start [...]

How Michael Jordan and Thomas Edison Failed Their Way Forward

How Michael Jordan and Thomas Edison Failed Their Way Forward

When you hear the word failure what often comes to mind? When I hear failure I think of times when I haven’t won at a sporting event or haven’t finished within a deadline or maybe when I have tried to do something, like tying a jelly snake into a knot in my mouth, and been [...]

Technology, Trucks, and Trains: Robert Nathan and the Freight Fast-Lane

Technology, Trucks, and Trains: Robert Nathan and the Freight Fast-Lane

This week we caught up with Robert Nathan the 28 year old graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-founder of Load Delivered Logistics, LLC. While so many young people are jumping into tech startups trying to build the next facebook, Robert dove into the more traditional transportation industry. It seems as though [...]

6.5 Reasons Surfing is Like Entrepreneurship

6.5 Reasons Surfing is Like Entrepreneurship

They might seem worlds apart, but in fact there are many similarities between surfers and entrepreneurs. Here are six and a half. 1. It takes time to learn how to stand up Before even reaching the water, surfers have invested time and money in their surfboard. Surfers then spend the next few months finding their [...]

30 Business Lessons I Learned Before 30

30 Business Lessons I Learned Before 30

Learning starts right from the moment we are born, even though we may not consciously remember every lesson we learned we still practice them everyday because our subconscious is much more powerful than our conscious. I am a student of life, I love to learn, be it a skill, sport, technology, philosophy or anything for [...]

Top 10 Cities for Young Entrepreneurs in 2010

Top 10 Cities for Young Entrepreneurs in 2010

Recently Under30CEO ran a poll to find out what the top cities for young entrepreneurs were in the United States. Voters were asked to think about resources, schools, events, climate, and the social scene that a young entrepreneur looks for. The results are in and below we have put together the top 10 cities for [...]

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Learning to Bend With the Wind While Starting a Business

Learning to Bend With the Wind While Starting a Business

One thing that I have learned over the past few years is that when you build your business you may have to adapt and reshape your idea. So many businesses have experienced this when starting out their business in the first stages and many of them don’t change a thing that is actually hurting them [...]

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11 Free Tools Every Young Entrepreneur Must Use!

11 Free Tools Every Young Entrepreneur Must Use!

Every young entrepreneur is strapped for cash yet looking for all the same products and services that big companies use. It is important to look professional yet also squeeze every penny when starting out. Here are 11 tools that will help you do both in the startup days of your venture. 1. Google Docs What’s [...]

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Why Are So Many People in Their 20s Taking So Long to Grow Up?

A study done recently showed that today’s generation is taking longer then ever to reach what traditionally is defined as adulthood. An article in the New York Times covered this study and tried to figure out why this generation is growing up so slowly. The article shows some interesting facts ” The 20s are a [...]

Why Fear is Good as an Entrepreneur

Why Fear is Good as an Entrepreneur

What is Fear? It’s an emotion, a feeling, and although traditionally fear has been despised and fearlessness has been appreciated, I believe fear just like every other emotion has its own purpose in life and hence it should be equally respected. Napoleon Hill, in his 1934 book Think and Grow Rich names six basic fears [...]

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First Time Entrepreneur? No Funding for You!

Many young entrepreneurs don’t realize how hard the funding process is. You hear all day about these companies getting tons of money and it seems like VC money is flying around everywhere. However you don’t hear about the 1000s of ideas that are shot down or never got that funding they were after. Business Insider [...]

Australia’s International Young Gun: An Interview with Jack Delosa

Australia’s International Young Gun: An Interview with Jack Delosa

From almost losing it all in his first business to going on to build one of the fastest 50 growing ventures Australia saw in 2009, he’s the adrenalin junky who is now launching a movement that is developing entrepreneurs all over the world. Jack Delosa was named one the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in [...]

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Who Starts More Businesses Gen Y or Their Parents?

A recent article in Newsweek shows a study that says older workers are more likely to start a business than the younger generation. Despite what most people hear and see on the news about how many young people are ruling the business world like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook or the Google founders most businesses are [...]

Startup Hot Seat: Universities Finest vs Bucks Happening

Startup Hot Seat: Universities Finest vs Bucks Happening

Today we have Universities Finest and Bucks Happening profiled below. Both companies are making moves and cost virtually nothing to start. Universities Finest simply saw an opening and starting making calenders at campuses across the county. Bucks Happening is an extremely niche blog show casing everything happening in Bucks country Pennsylvania. Simple ideas that a [...]

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Less Meetings, More Networking, More Teams: The Gen Y Workplace

A recent article in Reuters explains what some young professionals think the future workplace will look like. These ideas and changes can already be seen in many places today as younger workers look for flexibility rather than long-term career goals. According to one young professional “Kathrine Harper thinks she and her millennial colleagues will run [...]

Are You Protecting Your Ideas? Learn How to do it Right!

Are You Protecting Your Ideas? Learn How to do it Right!

“[I]f knowledge is the means for creating value, then intellectual property is the means for extracting that value.” – Arena & Carreras, The Business of Intellectual Property, Oxford University Press (2008). Protecting intellectual property is a key business and legal concern that is often overlooked, for one reason or another, by many small businesses. By [...]

Pitching to Investors at Y Combinator Growing Rapidly

Pitching to Investors at Y Combinator Growing Rapidly

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows that the Y Combinator has grown tremendously in the 5 years since its launch. Y Combinator is a program for startup companies that provides them with resources, mentorship and connections for a small piece of equity. There are many similar programs that have popped up over [...]

Creating Leverage on a Shoestring Budget

Creating Leverage on a Shoestring Budget

Leverage. We’ve heard the word tossed around by gurus, moguls, and business experts, but they conveniently forget to tell us how to create that leverage and what to do if we don’t have millions or even thousands of dollars to create it. Today, I’m offering 3 simple ways to create leverage on a shoestring budget. [...]

Inspiring Teens to Find Happiness and Never Give Up in Life

Inspiring Teens to Find Happiness and Never Give Up in Life

Remember the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”? Well if you don’t it is the one where Will Smith plays a homeless man who has a son and documents his struggles of trying to survive. However he goes on to be a leading broker at Bear Sterns and then eventually starts his own brokerage firm only [...]

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Entrepreneur Contests are on the Rise Around the World

Every young entrepreneur is looking for resources, mentor-ship, money, whatever they can find to get their ideas off the ground. A recent Fast Company article shows that there are more and more contests out there for innovative entrepreneurs. These contests are not just in North America but are popping up all over the world. As [...]