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Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010: Shell LiveWIRE
As a young entrepreneur you need to constantly be on the look out for contests and competitions. It is always worth entering to win money, mentoring, resources or all of the above. Any small business can benefit from prizes like this and as a bootstrapping entrepreneur this type of prize could make all the difference. [...]
Russell D’Souza and SeatGeek are Changing How You Buy Tickets
Russell D’Souza co-founded SeatGeek in 2009. SeatGeek predicts ticket prices for events based on a variety of factors and after analyzing millions of transactions to develop patterns. Russel graduated Dartmouth College in 2007 and has already raised over 1.5million for SeatGeek while also being part of the founding team of Scribnia. Russell is very focused [...]
Reality Show for Young Entrepreneurs Episode 4: Making Moves – Going Viral
Watch as the guys visit NYC and talk with Under30CEO! Matt Wilson and Jared O’Toole sit down in New York with the guys from Making Moves. They also talk about going viral online as they create their digital media strategy. Jenna Marbles also stops by the office to talk about how she got 7.5 million [...]
Startup Hot Seat: isWearing, Mapachat, Lexani Limousines
What do you think of this startups below? They are all run by young entrepreneurs looking to make their name in this world. Everyone needs advice to mold and shape their idea. Each startup has some questions that they need answering or just leave your thoughts on the companies in the comments below. Lets see [...]
Fail Fast and Fail Often: Interview with Carl Taylor
Today we caught up with 24 year old serial entrepreneur Carl Taylor. Carl started his first business at the age of 15, unless you count the magic shows he used to run for his family at the price of 20 cents. Since then he has been involved in product sales, web design, a gift hamper [...]
Never Use the Words “I Can’t”
Have you ever been told you couldn’t do something? Have you listened to society telling you that you have to get an education to be somebody? Society is bad about making us believe that we have to go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a degree so we can get a good [...]
Creating Her Dream Job: Brittany K Earls of Genesis Magazine
Today we had the chance to catch up with Brittany K Earls the 23 year old founder of Genesis Magazine. In only 15months she grew the magazine to almost 40,000 print subscribers from 18 states. The magazine is making money through a traditional advertising model and we were able to hear Brittany’s thoughts on the [...]
Changing the Way We Think About the News: Ali Alam of YourVox
In the third quarter of 2009, Ali launched YourVox Inc., a platform for sharing news, and perspectives on events taking place in the world in real time. At the age of 19, Ali is changing the way that we think about the news, as his platform enables global issues to become a participative discussion, as [...]
Young Entrepreneur Interview with Raymond Lei of ooshirts.com
This week we caught up with Raymond Lei who is the 19 year old founder of ooshirts.com. He started ooshirts when he was 16 and has grown it to a $60,000 a month business. He says that recently the company has seen a %50 month over month growth rate which he is aiming to continue [...]
Finding a Passion in Shoes: Startup Musa Shoes
What is the story behind your company? I originally wanted to be a shoe designer making custom, handmade shoes. I took a 5-day class in San Francisco with a London-based accessory school, Prescott and Mackay, to learn how to hand make a pair of women’s pumps. After taking the class, I realized that it wasn’t [...]
Building a T-Shirt Company From Your Basement with Peter Fertiguena
We caught up with Peter Fertiguena, 27 year old founder of Academy Printwear. Peter attended Southern Connecticut State for 3 semesters but then dropped out because he hated learning facts and simply wanted to discover things for himself. He began touring with the band he was a part of which is where he ran into [...]
Interview: How Emily Dubner is Baking Her Way to Success
Emily Dubner is the founder of Baking for Good, a New York based startup. Baking for Good sells all natural brownies, cookies, and other treats while giving %15 of every purchase to a nonprofit of the customers choice. Emily has made great strides with Baking for Good in the past year even though she had [...]
Find a Competition With Startup Student Competitions
What is the story behind your company? It is a funny story. The four founders met randomly in the business incubator “Business Lab”, which is connected to the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. We are all passionate about competing and found that there were no one good website for Student Competitions on the market. [...]
53 Coworking Centers in the Top Cities for Entrepreneurs
What is the one thing every young entrepreneur is looking for? Money! How to make it, how to save it, how to use it etc…Of course while bootstrapping a business every entrepreneur is looking for ways to keep what little money they do have but build an empire at the same time. Coworking is a [...]
Drew Leahy is Tackling the Music Industry with MyBandStock.com
22 year old Drew Leahy is out to change the music industry with his company Mybandstock.com. Drew is juggling a growing startup and school at the University of Michigan. He mentions how this balance is one of the toughest things for him to do right now. Mybandsotck has recently signed a client from a major [...]
10 Ways to Launch A National Movement in Your Twenties
In your twenties you have limited access to resources and very little experience, and that’s exactly why you can be incredibly successful! Our lack of resources helped us improvise and build the impossible with the GenJuice Tour. With just big dreams, we attracted sponsors, gained media coverage, received event venue donations and will touch over [...]
