Many people have a big misconception that they have to quit their job to start their own business.  In reality, it is perfectly doable to start a new business while you are still working.  I highly recommend that anybody starting their own business gives themselves a year to start getting online exposure before leaping into [...]

As part of our continuing interview series highlighting young entrepreneurs who are making it happen, we’re very happy to present a great interview with Mike Roberts from SpyFu.  If you haven’t heard about SpyFu, it’s just a matter of time.  Anyone with a website would be wise to check it out.  That is, if you [...]

An excerpt from Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up by Rob Salkowitz, published by John Wiley and Sons, reprinted by permission.
“I’d like to share a personal story, if you don’t mind,” said Yerutí Méndez, Director of Training and Technology for the Young Americas Business Trust, [...]

Passion is an unbelievable thing.  It’s often what motivates me to get up in the morning, and it definitely what fuels me to be exceptional at my job. You need passion to start something new, to go above and beyond, or even to approach something in a completely original way.  Passion is what differentiates a [...]

Ah… creativity.  It’s one of the things that sets entrepreneurs apart from the crowd.  When you think about it, we have to be creative.  Whether it’s finding new approaches to old problems, devising website copy and marketing materials, or coming up with money-saving processes, most young entrepreneurs aren’t in a position to hire a crack [...]

Here at Young Entrepreneur, we are committed to bringing our readers great content in the form of resources, advice, tools, and much more.  One of the best sources of information about what it takes to make it as a young entrepreneur comes from others who have made it happen.  They’ve felt the excitement you feel, [...]

One of the common things you’ll hear from people when you say you’re going to start a business is that you need to write a business plan.  And there is no doubt that planning is a vitally important part of the process when starting out.  You need to know where you’re going and how you [...]

We recently started our new annual blog awards series where we recognize our favorite blogs from a variety of categories. There are a lot of really great blogs out there that we at YoungEntrepreneur.com read and learn from on a regular basis, and our goal is to highlight these blogs so you too can enjoy [...]

Many of you know about the award-winning book that my brother and I recently wrote called Kidpreneurs, which explains Entrepreneurship for Kids (between the ages of 6-13). The book was written to fuel a child’s desire to get involved in business early by stoking curiosity in simple, engaging, creative, and safe ways.
Young people see the [...]

Fact #1: Everybody is blogging these days.
Fact #2: Very few people are blogging effectively.
Fact #3: Even fewer blogs generate business, revenues, and profits.
Fact #4: A great blog can do wonders for an entrepreneurial business.
A well-written, informative and entertaining blog will get your company attention from a variety of sources. It will enhance your placement on [...]

You wouldn’t dream of starting as business without a plan, so why do so many business owners start social media campaigns without any real planning or strategy. Typically, they start blogging, Tweeting, building Facebook pages and checking in on FourSquare simply because everyone else is doing it.
In other words, they approach social media marketing as [...]

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest. This would be a mistake, and could [...]