• Y Combinator’s Unathorized European Clone – Y Combinator’s funding methodology of investing a small amount of money across a wide array of young entrepreneurs has already inspired other programs, such as TechStars out of Colorado.
• Time Management Skills – With so many demands on our time, there’s just simply not enough hours in day. The following are some areas that should be focused on to maintain a good schedule.
• Small business finance: Young entrepreneurs share their views – BusinessZone was at the recent British Chambers of Commerce annual conference to hear the thoughts of some of the UK’s leading young entrepreneurs on financing new ventures.

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• Students: Social innovation pays – 10 Social Innovators will be selected to lead Conscious Lifestyle ventures and receive up to $1,000 in funding, a web page, t-shirts, business cards, personalized support, and everything else you need to make your venture a success.
• Institute For Entrepreneurship College – Today, just a few hours ago, I learned of a new program called the Institute for Entrepreneurs at Grand Canyon University.
• 10 things every young entrepreneur should know – No matter how established your business you may find the following ten tips can help you to improve your business practices, stretch your financing reach and increase your net worth!

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• Are you Europe’s Young Entrepreneur? – Business Week Online has a competition to find the best European young entrepreneur under 25.

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• Bob Young from Red Hat on Entrepreneurship – Bob Young, co-founder and former Chairman of Red Hat. He had nothing prepared, no notes, no tie, and even admitted to forgetting he was supposed to give a speech that day until shortly before the event.
• Wanted: Young American farmers for documentary – With this film we hope build the case for those considering a career in agriculture, to embolden them, to entice them, and to recruit them into farming.
• The teens that mean business – Two years ago, nearly all Jasmine Lawrence’s hair fell out after a chemical perm went horribly wrong. Today, partly because of that accident, she is at the helm of a haircare products group whose sales could top $1m this year.
• Entrepreneurs are the future! – Andy is desperately striving for a State that supports Entrepreneurs and will provide the necessary resources for individuals to start businesses.

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• 20 Things You Should and Should Not Do Before Starting Your Small Business – Dane Carlson lists 20 Things Not to Do Before Starting A Business. While I agree with some of his points, I disagree with many others and think that if you follow them, they will either hinder the growth of your business, or get you into trouble.
• Mind Petals Magazine – Young Entrepreneurs – In March, I started writing for Mind Petals Magazine. In case any of you are not familiar with Mind Petals, it is a young entrepreneur network offering informative, inspiring and motivational content designed for any entrepreneur.
• Young Entrepreneur: The Future Looks Very Bright – Today young entrepreneurs have come a long way from delivering newspapers, walking dogs, babysitting or running lemonade stands. In fact children as small as 12 have started to run full fledged manufacturing businesses and services.
• Helpful Hints for Young Entrepreneurs – Entrepreneurship isn’t just for people with specific business training; it’s for anyone who wants to take advantage of an opportunity. Here are some tips to help you get started.
• Did You Get Back Your Taxes? If So, Reinvest those Bucks! – For the first time since running my business I got back a tax return. YAY! It was definitely a good feeling, albeit it was only a few hundred dollars.
• Newest College Major: Entrepreneur – Here are some interesting thoughts from a recent study about young entrepreneurs.

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• Marry Your Passion and Divorce The Rest – Adam, who runs the successful and newly launched My Body Tutor, said something that left an impression on me: “I married my passion with entrepreneurship.”
• Look-Look at the New Entrepreneurs – Today’s youth are moving away from the old definitions of success held by previous generations. This shift has kicked-off a surge of young entrepreneurs who are striking out on their own, developing new business models, launching independent ventures.
• Interview with Brad Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital – What lessons learned can you impart on young entrepreneurs that you gained from your first venture, Feld Technologies? “Just go for it.” When my partner and I started Feld Technologies, we funded it with $10. Not $10,000. $10. We didn’t know any better and just got going.

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• I hear rich people: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen speaking in SF May 23rd – INFORUM, the younger, hipper version of the Commonwealth Club is hosting an event with YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, moderated by Wired’s editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson.
• Young entrepreneurs get cash, help with businesses – Tyler Pistor’s vision of converting paper documents into electronic files has earned him top prize among area youth entrepreneurs in the 2006 BIZMAP Business Plan Competition.
• Business success linked to innovation, hard work, integrity – Innovation, passion, belief, hard work, integrity and perseverance are the most important qualities that an aspiring entrepreneur should develop in order to succeed.
• Spare Some Change? Three Young Entrepreneurs Aim to Raise Capital for Business and Change the Country While Doing It – Three young entrepreneurs searching for capital for their startup business are taking a unique approach to fundraising; and they are calling on all Americans to help them out.
• Ground-breaking event to find farming’s young entrepreneurs – Farming needs young, innovative people to develop tomorrow’s agricultural businesses like never before.
• YouthActionNet Awards for social entrepreneur projects – The YouthActionNet Awards offer grants of $500 each to help fund the social change projects of young social entrepreneurs around the world.
• Chamber fosters young entrepreneurs – Mentoring, partnerships among the proposed approaches
• UP’s turks have nothing to conquer – UP is in fact a potential mecca for young businessmen. It has the highest purchasing power in the country and amongst the lowest labour costs.
• I’m Not Unemployed, I’m (SELF)-employed – We, young entrepreneurs, are employed by our desires to make it big and contribute to the world.

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• Time Isn’t Money – One of the unfortunate things about being an entrepreneur is time does not equal money.
• ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ Present Plans for Record Label in Haas Program – Nearly 50 students from surrounding high schools presented business plans to a music label executive at the Haas School of Business.
• Would You CLICK Through Your Entrepreneurial Journey? – If you had the chance – if you had a universal remote that allowed you to fast-forward through your life – would you use it to get you to the point where you “have made it?”
• Incubator at Kongu Engineering College – The idea is like this, any entrepreneur having a requirement for an industrially demanded product can make use of this facility. He can bring in his own workforce or make use of the student resources in the college.
• No one wants your advice – Advice. Nobody wants advice. Not from me. Not from you.
• Area young entrepreneurs go for the gold…and get it – Distributive Education Clubs of America is an organization that started in the early 1940s for students interested in marketing, management and entrepreneurship.
• The Pure Adapt double shift – how I max my productivity – Every young entrepreneur has the odds stacked against them: we all have less money, less experience, and less resources than a seasoned business veteran. We tend to make up for all of those things by working VERY hard.

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• Funding a Startup with Angel Investors or Venture Capital – They told me about some companies that are offering young entrepreneurs early capital ($5,000 – $20,000) to get things up and running in exchange for small equity stakes.
• Upcoming: Women 2.0 Napkin Business Challenge Pitch Event – Women 2.0, a cool network of young female entrepreneurs (and those aspiring to escape their cubicle shackles), is hosting an event to conclude their Biz Plan Napkin Challenge.
• Young Entrepreneurs Seek Access To Govt Policies – A Dialogue session’ between the Brunei Industrial Development Authority ‘(Bina) and the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Brunei (YEAR) was held at Bina’s headquarters yesterday as a further’ step towards boosting private and public sector cooperation in Brunei Darussalam.
• Don’t be Afraid to Distort Reality – Think BIG – Young entrepreneurs, it’s crucial that you think big straight from the beginning.
• FT: New generation enters the business of doing good – As guests at the 2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, they have found themselves drawn into a movement that mixes a younger generation’s take on ideas of social justice with a new business-style approach, challenging the grant-giving approach of traditional philanthropy.
• Young entrepreneurs conference to be held – The third annual Young Entrepreneurs’ Conference will be held at UW-River Falls, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 13-14, and presented by the College of Business and Economics and sponsored by Xcel Energy.
• Workshop all about takin’ care of business – A group of prospective entrepreneurs gathers in Roanoke to learn how to be their own bosses.
• Revenue streams for liberal entrepreneurs – Today I will focus on revenue streams available to liberal entrepreneurs.  In a sense, this is the second half of the liberal entrepreneur’s (very rough) business plan.
• Young entrepreneurs across Ontario to benefit from major investment – The Ontario government is supporting young Ontario entrepreneurs by providing $2.2 million to the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), Small Business and Entrepreneurship Minister Harinder Takhar announced today.
• Berkeley students help hip-hop label – A New York-based hip-hop music label, Ruff Ryders, will receive advice on how to break into the European market from a group of East Bay teenagers in the company’s target demographic.
• Melding Silver and Gold – Jason Ryan Dorsey, author of My Reality Check Bounced!: The Twentysomethings’ Guide to Cashing in on Your Real-World Dreams, said young entrepreneurs could dramatically shorten their learning curve by bringing in someone who already has experience in the business world.

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• Young entrepreneur just likes getting things done – The 23-year-old Seneca post-graduate student and founder of his own company, UP — which has linked thousands of university students across Canada via www.Uni versityParty.ca — is one of six 2007 regional champions in last month’s Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Regional Exposition for student entrepreneurs.

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