In the past, the only way to get professional credibility was with a college degree. Now young people are using many different tools to gain a foothold in the business world.
Entrepreneurship
How the Rich Got Rich
John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire, said, “If your only goal is to become rich, you’ll never achieve it.”
Easy for him to say, but his point is well taken: If the only thing you care about is making money, no …
My Summer Incubationship: Student Entrepreneurs Get a Crash Course in Launching a Small Business
The GE/OMD Incubator offers college students with clever business ideas the skills and resources necessary to turn an idea into a viable business.
Made for Digital: Believe Entertainment Group Is Bypassing Television
A new breed of media companies are trying to convince people to get their sitcom and drama fix directly from online original programming instead of television.
Renouncing Your Citizenship to Stick It to the Tax Man? Not as Easy as it Looks
To hear some tell it, we’ve got the beginning of an Ayn-Randian capitalist strike on our hands – at least amongst American expatriates fed up with writing checks to the IRS despite living abroad. Indeed, as tax attorney Jim …
Immigrants Outpacing the Rest of Us in Small Business Ownership
Just a couple decades ago, only 12% of small business owners were immigrants. Today, the number is 18% — a disproportion ratio given that immigrants make up just 13% of the U.S. population, according to a new study by the Fiscal …
Tour de Fitness: Indoor Cycling Boutique SoulCycle Is Recruiting New Riders
With plans to double its footprint this year, indoor cycling boutique SoulCycle is recruiting new riders to its stationary peloton.
Codecademy Founder: Why Everyone Should Learn Programming
In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe. The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had. They worked nights and …
Reinventing the Paddle: A Small Company Rides the ‘Stand-up’ Wave
Necessity is the mother of invention, and in 1990 that necessity was a wedding gift for Dave Chun’s friends and fellow members of the Kailua Canoe Club in Hawaii, where outrigger paddling is as prolific as running or cycling on …
Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship
Jabious and Anthony Williams were living crammed with their mom and eight other family members in their aunt’s two-bedroom apartment in Anacostia, a violent Southeast Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Every day the boys walked
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‘Self-Employment Assistance’: How We’re Helping Americans Help Themselves
In June of 2008, Adam Lowry and Michael Richardson found themselves unemployed. The tech startup where they worked in Portland, Vidoop, had just closed its doors, and employees were being offered company laptops in lieu of
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Why We’re So Bad At Teaching Entrepreneurship
Decades of research have shown that students are very interested in being their own bosses. In the ’90s, for example, a Kauffman Foundation study found that two-thirds of high school students wanted to become entrepreneurs. …