Tag: young entrepreneur
The Inherent Advantages of the Young CEO
It is always better to get started early then to do so very late. It is why some of the most successful athletes of the world are also the ones that got started with their respective sports while they were still very young. Since they had the benefit of learning about the intricacies of their [...]
Robin Wilson Interview: The Under30CEO Entrepreneur Mashup Champion
Under30CEO is excited to present the winner of the 2013 Entrepreneur Mashup! Let’s run through some of the stats on the competition and the extraordinary involvement of readers and voters throughout the process. Competition Stats 16 entrepreneurs out of more than 100 applicants made the tournament. There were a total of over 21,000 votes in [...]
The Best Thing About Falling Is You Can’t Tell Which Way Is Down
Keeping with my recent trend of metaphors, a typical comment you hear from the startup community is “I just took the leap”, meaning someone just left their cushy job and took a huge risk to start a company. Starting a company can be one of the most exciting times in life, just like the first [...]
Age Is Nothing But a Number
One of the hardest parts about being a young entrepreneur is actually just being young. An enormous challenge I’ve had to tackle over and over since I started my first serious business during college is getting people older than me to believe in my vision, my capability, and the value I claim to deliver – [...]
10 Things I Never Expected While Growing a Company
When starting your own company your first goal should be to of course generate revenue. Mine was to generate revenue and find a way to survive on my own without venture capital or loans. Throughout the years of working around the clock in a basement and at my mother’s kitchen table, I experienced a few [...]
Interview: Noa Santos and HomePolish are Making Interior Design Affordable
Every so often, I interview someone from a company that’s still in the early stages of development, but has created a truly unique business with enormous potential. Such is the case with Noa Santos, the co-founder and CEO of HomePolish. Together with company president Will Nathan, Santos has created a full service interior design firm [...]
Interview: Jonas Falk’s OrganicLife is Revolutionizing School Lunches
Jonas Falk is an accidental activist. As a businessman with a vision to provide cost effective, nutritious, restaurant quality lunches to schoolkids, he has created a company capable of serving the needs and desires of many concerned parents and health conscious individuals. Falk is the founder and CEO of the Chicago based company, OrganicLife, currently [...]
Interview: Alison Johnston and InstaEDU – Tutoring on Demand
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Alison Johnston, the CEO and co-founder of InstaEDU, an innovative, online tutoring on demand service she founded a couple years ago with her brother, Dan and their Stanford classmate, Joey Shurtleff. Alison and Dan had previously operated an in-house SoCal tutoring service called Cardinal Scholars, where they [...]
Advertising on a Bootstrapper’s Budget? 15 Tips for Making It Work
How should bootstrappers allocate resources for marketing and advertising? How do you figure out what’s reasonable when your company is still new? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free [...]
Interview: Shama Kabani and the Timely Success of the Marketing Zen Group
When Shama Kabani graduated with a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, Facebook’s popularity was just coming up on that of MySpace, and Twitter was still the new kid on the block. Social media was a nascent field, ripe for someone with her intelligence and drive to [...]
