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• Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:19 AM

  Small Business, Big Vision

  Matthew and Adam Toren have some career advice for young people today: if you want a great job, start a great company. The Torens run YoungEntrepreneur.com , one of the Web's best sites for practical advice on starting, running, promoting and growing Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Millennials, small business, entrepreneurship

• Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:59 PM

  More on Older vs. Younger Entrepreneurs

  Last week I blogged at Fast Company about how high-tech skills and the knowledge economy can give younger entrepreneurs an edge, despite research that shows that older people are more prolific and more successful as entrepreneurs overall. Today Nathaniel Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: entrepreneurship

• Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:19 AM

  Innovation Contests Offer Recognition to Young World Entrepreneurs

  Tony Stark, the entrepreneur-turned-superhero from the Iron Man movies and comics may be fictional, but the Tony Stark Innovation Challenge, an award for young entrepreneurs, is quite real. Earlier this month, MIT graduate student Nathan Linder flew off Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: entrepreneurship

• Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:56 AM

  Improving Business With Young World Entrepreneurs

  The Internet has empowered a global generation of young people to create new kinds of companies and new ways of doing business. It’s also creating stronger ties between developed and emerging economies, and a whole new set of challenges for businesses Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: small business, entrepreneurship, marketing, emerging markets strategy

• Monday, March 22, 2010 5:07 PM

  Young World Entrepreneurs Rise in Iran

  Thomas Erdbrink, in today's Washington Post, reports on a cool-sounding new video game from an unlikely place: Iran. "The Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy animators who created "Garshasp, the Monster Slayer" have not only impressed Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, South Asia

• Monday, March 08, 2010 9:23 AM

  Followup File: Thrillophilia

  When I was doing the initial research for Young World Rising, I spent a lot of time on the Web tracking down promising new companies around the world. A couple of examples were referred to me by friends and experts; others I found from repeated mentions Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, India

• Friday, March 05, 2010 2:16 PM

  Nice News to End the Week

  I was just honored to received an invitation to help judge the 2010 Innovation Contest of the Americas ( TIC Americas ), sponsored by the Young Americas Business Trust. I wrote about this organization in Young World Rising , in the context of non-government Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, Latin America, innovation, NGO

• Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:04 PM

  World Economic Forum Names Young Global Leaders for 2010

  The World Economic Forum released its list of Young Global Leaders for 2010 - 197 folks under 40 representing 72 different countries. The youngest leader chosen from Europe is Lucian Tarnowski , the precocious 26 year-old CEO of Brave New Talent, a UK-based Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, global netgeneration

• Friday, February 12, 2010 9:05 AM

  Top 30 Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs

  I'm a little late to the party, but last month, Unstrapp'd compiled this useful list of the top 30 Young Entrepreneur Blogs of 2009. I came across it via Shirley's Zone , the blog of an 18 year-old digital entrepreneur and business pundit from Ghana. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, entrepreneurship

• Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:21 PM

  Colombian Innovators Win "World of Solutions" Competition

  I just heard some great news from my friends at DUTO, SA - the Colombian start-up that developed a way for visually-impaired students to read information from computer displays through touch sensitivity. DUTO was just announced as the winner of an innovation Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, Latin America, innovation