Archive for the 'startups' Category

More on teenage entrepreneurs

Monday, May 21st, 2007

From Brad Feld comes a recommendation for a new book, “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley,” which as we’ve been seeing speaks to an accelerating theme of younger and younger kids starting companies. Why? Because they can. This nineteen year-old kid, Ben Casnocha, was fourteen [...]

Thirteen is the new twenty five

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

It seems there are more and more of these teenagers authoring hits, starting companies or otherwise taking matters into their own hands when they find things that don’t work for them. But this one is the best of all; a kid who took his frustration with chemistry class and turned it into a game that [...]

In defense of irrational exuberance