Meet the 13-Year-Old CEO Who Built a $200,000 Business and Is Mentored by Daymond John

Meet the 10-year-old maths genius who's just enrolled at college

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, for CNN

The 6 Attributes Shared by Young Millionaire

Young Millionaires: How These Entrepreneurs Under 30 Are Changing the World

AUGUST 20, 2014

From the September 2014 issue of Entrepreneur

Young people today don't just sit around and think about changing the world to suit their purposes--they do it. They may be inexperienced, but they're fearless when it comes to tackling long-stagnant business models and technologies with fresh new approaches-- ones that align with their internet upbringing and their expectation that commodities and information be transparent and easily shared. What might seem naive or reckless to the old-school regime is simply business as usual to big-dreaming upstarts who've been raised on the belief that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to.

What You Can Learn From 8 Kids Already Making a Million Dollars

DECEMBER 30, 2014

There’s no age limit when it comes to being a millionaire these days, and a handful of kids have struck it rich well before they can legally vote. They’re small business owners, inventors and entrepreneurs. I started as an entrepreneur when I was around 11 years old with my first candy stand, which grew to four candy stands, but that was nothing compared to some of these kids!

Degrees don’t matter anymore, skills do

If I were to make a nomination for the most destructive belief in our culture, it would be the belief that some people are born smart and others are born dumb. This belief is not only badly off target as a shorthand description of reality, it is the source of many social pathologies and lost opportunities. For example:

• Those who get low test scores think they are just not as smart andavoid tough majors that lead to some of the best jobs.
• A strong belief within an academic field that talent is innate goes along with that field having fewer women and African-Americans.
• Many people utter the black magic spell “I’m bad at math” and it becomes so. A lucky few have that spell broken, and find they can become good at math after all. 

Why Google doesn’t care about college degrees, in 5 quotes

Image Credit: Shawn Collins/Flickr

60 Reasons Why Entrepreneurship Is Amazing

MARCH 02, 2015

Every entrepreneur has a different story about why he or she decided to start a business. Some have known from day one that they wanted to work for themselves and others come up with ideas while working for someone else and decide to take the entrepreneurial leap. 

Most business owners will agree on one thing -- being an entrepreneur is great. There are endless reasons for this, and every entrepreneur will have his or her own personal reasons as well. Here are 60 reasons, in no particular order, why I think entrepreneurship is amazing. 

OurCycle LA Turns E-Waste Into Societal Gain

Nearly 10,000 computers will be either refurbished for use in disadvantaged neighborhoods or recycled as part of broader job training program.

Oregon Launches $400,000 Grant Program for Entrepreneurs Seeking Federal Money

The new Business Oregon program will help companies in their early stages develop their products to the point where they would be candidates for a much larger federal program.

How Open Is University Data?

States should push public universities to adopt open data policies.

High-Tech Farming Poised to Change the Way the World Eats

Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields.