New media, which encompasses all aspects of online marketing, such as social media marketing, blogging, comment marketing, and more, is everywhere we look these days. It’s almost impossible to find ads even in traditional media that don’t point to a company’s Facebook and Twitter pages, and the web is replete with blog posts, e-books, websites, [...]

Tim Sykes, Founder and CEO of Investimonials and Profit.ly, had a different college experience from most university students: skipping classes at Tulane in favor of trading penny stocks every day, he turned $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah gift money into $2 million and started a hedge fund during his senior year. He also created a scholarship [...]

I recently had the privilege of reading a truly outstanding book, and just had to interview the author to share his insights. Brian Reich is the author of Shift & Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society. It’s a book that’s not only a good read, but an important, solution-oriented change agent, [...]

Along with Brennan White, Matt Peters is the co-founder of Pandemic Labs, a social media marketing agency based in Boston, MA. Their agency helps businesses to navigate their brands through the gantlet of social media and use this powerful tool to successfully promote their brand. Matt and Brennan (and their whole team) get that social [...]

Emerson Spartz is a great example of what a young entrepreneur can do if they believe in themselves and are willing to work for their vision. Emerson began home schooling at the age of 12 and started creating a website for fun. Today, that site – MuggleNet – is the world’s number one Harry Potter [...]

If you have a local business or website that you’d like to take national, or if you just like to hear stories of young entrepreneurs who have beaten the odds to realize business success, today’s interview is for you. In the late ’80s, 8 year old Gelie Akhenblit and her family immigrated to the US [...]

In an entrepreneurial space where there are literally thousands of competitors, you have to have something special to be successful. Today’s interview with Patrick Chukwura highlights just the kind of attitude and savvy a young entrepreneur has to have if they want to make it in gaming or any other industry. Patrick, co-founder of Fine [...]

If you spend much time in the entrepreneurial blogosphere, chances are good that you’ll come across Maren Kate Donovan, or someone talking about her. Maren Kate, as she usually goes by, is a true entrepreneur to her core. Her entrepreneurial journey started just after high school, and she’s persevered through a good number of challenges [...]

Another of our loyal supporters during the 2011 Small Business Influencers voting that led to our being honored as one of the top 100 Small Business Influencers of 2011 was Died on the Vine, the brainchild of Jason Platnick. Died on the Vine is an outstanding site with a unique, compelling concept, and Jason has [...]

Earlier this month, YoungEntrepreneur.com was honored to be chosen as a 2011 Small Business Influencers Champion. We are thrilled to have been selected, and we know that our amazing community of young entrepreneurs made it happen. One such supporter who deserves our thanks is Alaina Ostroff, Founder of Tutor Champ, a math and science tutoring [...]

Find a need and fill it. We hear that mantra over and over as advice on how to start a business. And that’s exactly what Ben Lang of MySchoolHelp.com has done. Much like a lot of household name companies of today, such as eBay, Craigslist, and Facebook, Ben’s company started out as an idea that [...]

How do you make money by giving something away? Just ask the subject of today’s interview, Costin Tuculescu. Costin, a software engineer by education, is a serial entrepreneur whose passion lies in creating new technologies, finding solutions to technology problems, and producing new, exciting products and services. His latest venture is a full-featured web conferencing [...]