Matthew Toren

Matthew Toren is an Award Winning Author, Serial Entrepreneur, and Investor. He Co-Founded YoungEntrepreneur.com along with his brother Adam. Matthew is co-author of the newly released book:Small Business, Big Vision: “Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right” and also co-author of Kidpreneurs.

Ways To Bootstrap Your Business

By | May 11, 2007

I was reading through the YE Forums today and noticed a thread on bootstrapping so I thought I would share a list of top ways to bootstrap your business. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, bootstrapping is the process of spending as little money as possible to get your business [...]

Young Entrepreneur Profile – The Walker Project

By | May 10, 2007

Mike Walker is 27 years old and is taking the surfboard industry by storm. Like many entrepreneurs Mike started his business as a hobby and worked out of his parent’s garage when he was 17. “I started building boards during high school when my family was living in northern Baja. During my junior and senior [...]

Summer Camp For Young Entrepreneurs

By | May 9, 2007

Now here is an opportunity I wish I had been given when I was in summer camp! This August a group of 44 young entrepreneurs aged 14 to 16 will be invited to join Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi of Montreal. It is a summer camp for young entrepreneurs where students will get a taste of what it [...]

Young Entrepreneur Profile – YE Forum Members

By | May 8, 2007

Since this blog is an offshoot from the popular Young Entrepreneur Forums I thought it would be fun to profile some of the popular forum members and showcase what they are up to. Here is a list of the 6 members who have gone over the 1,000 post mark. That represents a lot of work [...]

An Intro To Google Filters – #4 The Broken Link Filter

By | May 7, 2007

The next in my series on Google Filters looks at the Broken Link Filter. The backbone of Google’s search engine is based on links so it is no wonder that the Broken Link Filter is given a lot of attention. A broken link is when you link to a page that does not exist. Broken [...]

How Young Entrepreneurs Differ From Older Entrepreneurs

By | May 4, 2007

American Express ran a survey to find out if young entrepreneurs were really all that different from older entrepreneurs and it turns out that we are! The main findings were: Similarities Optimistic about the U.S. economy (64% young, 62% old) Both agree that passion, rather than money, drives them towards success Differences  Having fun is [...]

Young Entrepreneur Profile – Eazyfone Group

By | May 3, 2007

I came across an interesting profile of Pete Petrondas and thought I would share it with you. Pete founded Eazyfone to sell mobile phone contracts to customers and quickly built his business to 14 employees and 250,000 pounds in revenue. Then disaster struck. Pete’s supplier pulled the plug on him and he had to let [...]

Young Millionaires

By | May 2, 2007

Entrepreneur.com put out a cool slideshow that I just came across which profiles some of the most successful entrepreneurs under 40 years of age in America. It includes people like Tina Wells, 26, founder of Buzz Marketing Group, a youth marketing agency specializing in research, events and promotions. She has $3.3 million in sales and [...]

An Intro To Google Filters – #3 Google's Link Farm Filter

By | May 1, 2007

In my continuing series on Google Filters, today I will discuss the Link Farm Filter. Google’s search engine ranks web pages according to their incoming links. Before Google put a big emphasis on getting quality links, early search engine optimizers focused on quantity. The thinking was simple – the more incoming links you have, the [...]

8 Websites to Help You Raise Capital

By | April 30, 2007

Young entrepreneurs are always asking me where they can find the capital to launch their businesses or get to the next step. Your best bet, especially early on, is to connect through your network. Somebody knows somebody who knows somebody who can help you. That being said, I thought I would put together a list [...]

How Old Is A Site? Here's A Cool Tool To Find Out

By | April 27, 2007

On Monday I discussed Google’s Domain Age Filter and the importance of having a domain that has been around for a while. Well how do you find out how old a domain is? A cool tool that I like to use is the Wayback Machine. You can put in any website and it will give [...]

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