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A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship. Today's young entrepreneurs are motivated to start companies because they hate authority and want to break all the rules, according to a recent study of 250 business owners between the ages of 18 and 22 years old.

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An energetic young man by the name of Ankur Jain blew into the Inc. offices a couple of months ago to sell me on the idea of getting involved with the Kairos Society, an organization he launched three years ago. Its focus, he told me, "is to bring together the world's top collegiate entrepreneurs to create the next billion-dollar, high-growth, job-creating ventures to solve some of the world's greatest problems." Jain is all of 21, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, the son of a muckety-muck with contacts to spare, and, like a lot of entrepreneurs, a whirlwind of ambition, salesmanship, and enthusiasm.

An energetic young man by the name of Ankur Jain blew into the Inc.