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Feed Subscription6 Gen Y Rules for Older Workers
Stop judging & start listening: Senior execs can learn something valuable from their youngest employees. This is part of a 2-part series. Read the companion post: 8 Old-School Rules for Gen Y
Read More »30 Under 30 | Call for Nominations
Call for Nominations Are you, or do you know, an under-30 superstar entrepreneur who we should consider for this year's 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs list? We're calling for nominations from all industries to create a diverse list of companies led by young entrepreneurs who have the potential to become the rock star CEOs of their generation
Read More »Startup Weekend: Entrepreneurship’s Democratizer
Co-founder Marc Nager reveals why the Startup Weekend model fosters the most innovative ideas. Startup Weekend is simply an event that challenges teams to start a company in one weekend
Read More »Three Men And A Basement: How Carrot Creative Grew
How three college grads worked in a basement and lived off of ramen as they built "the best and brightest social media agency on the planet." [twistage 3322f1af891b4] Mike Germano met Chris Petescia in high school, and then Bobby Gaafar in college.
Read More »"Owner:" Popular Gen Y Job Title on Facebook
Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generation and entrepreneurship. Exactly how entrepreneurial is Gen Y? That's a contested issue in the blogosphere with some saying today’s young people are a born generation of business owners and others arguing they’re simply victims of the terrible economy forced into finding alternate routes to employment
Read More »Pleasing the Socially Conscious Consumer
A shift in Gen Y customers' expectations mean businesses need to do more than just make money. Or does it
Read More »A Brief History of Stephen Hawking: A Video Tribute
In most cases, you need to make a huge donation to have a building named after you.
Read More »David Burstein’s Very Busy (And Very Successful) Year Off Between High School And College
"If you do what you're passionate about, you'll be rewarded," says Burstein. David Burstein's Generation 18 is evidence of how much can be achieved with a well-told story.
Read More »Generation Y Is Born To Startup
There’s a fundamental difference between the rebels of the past and today: Generation Y are born entrepreneurs. Every generation rebels against their parents. When parents approve, their offspring disapproves.
Read More »World’s Largest Wind Power Storage System Charges Ahead
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Read More »Two Laptops And A Mobile Phone: Startup Music From SoundCloud’s Alex Ljung
SoundCloud started in a cafe on a couple of laptops. A few years later, 29-year-old Alex Ljung and his cofounder, Eric Wahlforss, are squeezing 50 employees into an office to oversee a sound-sharing platform used in over a hundred mobile apps
Read More »The Human Experience: Apple and Standardized Personalization
Like others, I learned of Jobs’ passing on an Apple device. S and I were just on our way out the door to pick up dinner when I hit the Facebook app on my iPhone.
Read More »Moving forward, spin goes sideways
Building electronic devices that work without needing to actually transport electrons is a goal of spintronics researchers, since this could lead to: reduced power consumption, lower levels of signal noise,
Read More »Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Mashup in Tweets
Wading through the river of tweets in the wake of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs's death. Steve Jobs's death [became] the trending topic of all trending topics ( @deliacabe ). He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation ( @SteveCase )
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