Enter the gig economy. Now, anyone with the motivation and skills to work can pursue a variety of service and sales roles. …
Why the Gig Economy Is a Great Place for Young People to Get Their Start
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How to Dominate Your Goals and Achieve Freedom
by / ⠀Blog• Career Advice• Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship• Podcast• Startup Advice• Travel• Under30CEO / February 1, 2016
Want to start a business? Be an entrepreneur? Achieve the freedom that everyone desires? But are you sure entrepreneurship is for you? Are you pursuing your dreams for the right reasons? In this week’s interview, Jason Bay from Gen Y Success drops his formula for setting goals that are vision oriented AND executable. Jason Bay is the founder of GenY Success and the host of The GenY Success Show. He’s a millennial himself and…
Sewn to Entrepreneurship: Interview with Zara Terez Tisch
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / January 14, 2015Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world started showing signs of being an entrepreneur at a very young age. With both parents as entrepreneurs in the garment and textile industry, Zara Terez Tisch had all of the makings of a young entrepreneur. Asked about her first ever venture, Zara, Founder of Zara Terez replied, “My earliest entrepreneurial venture was picking up rocks in my backyard and…
Best Advice Ever: Be Cool with Being Different via @Inc
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Startup Advice• Travel / October 14, 2014
Hey Under30CEO, For years I spent my life trying to fit in. I acclimated myself to my surroundings, tried to assimilate to society, and followed the straight and narrow path in hopes I would be accepted by the people around me. If you’ve read Under30CEO for a while, you know by now, I put an end to that noise, and now take pride in doing my own thing. After spending…
Hey Under30CEO, As most of you know a lot of what we talk about on Under30CEO is creating businesses that not only make money but also make a positive impact on the world. Some of you know the story, but before we started our travel company Under30Experiences, I took a random trip to Iceland that changed everything for me. It was during this trip that I examined how…
From Basement to Center Stage – Interview with Glamour Kills Founder Mark Capicotto
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / June 4, 2014Glamour Kills embraces the spirit of the underdog, from their flying pig logo to the humble beginnings of the brand. Nearly a decade after their start, this alternative fashion brand has gone from the basement to the center stage. Mark Capicotto started doing freelance art designs of CD covers, t-shirts, and logos for friends’ bands while in High School. In his parents basement in New York with a…
So you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur. Great! You probably already have plans to become the next Silicon Valley giant, giving Mark Zuckerberg or Sergey Brin a run for their money. Maybe you want to build the next WhatsApp you can sell to Facebook for a mind-boggling $19 billion. Maybe you just want to be really, really, rich. Being an entrepreneur, though, is much more than just wanting…
Subscribing to Success – Interview with OrderGroove Founder Greg Alvo
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / March 18, 2014What is OrderGroove? “We power subscription commerce programs for brands and retailers to help them extend lifetime value of their most valuable customers.” E-commerce subscription platforms are a significant part of online business now, but in 2008, convincing investors that a subscription commerce model would take off was a significant challenge. OrderGroove founder and CEO Greg Alvo turned to bootstrapping instead of dwelling on the lack of investors…
Off on the Right Foot – Interview with Startup Nice Laundry Co-Founder Ricky Choi
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews• Entrepreneurship / March 11, 2014From Kickstarter Success to Fully Scaling a Growing Startup Ricky Choi is a young entrepreneur who not only cares about his style, but makes sure to keep his friends up to date on fashion as well. Nice Laundry co-founder Phil Moldavski was a fashionable guy from head to toe – except when it came to his socks. “Phil would come to work dressed in a nice pair of jeans,…
Announcing the Under30CEO Awards 2014 – Applications Open
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship / February 12, 2014If you’re a young entrepreneur under the age of 30 in the United States you can enter the Under30CEO Awards! We are looking for rising stars that are making moves and disrupting industries. Applications are open until April 11th, 2014. Submit your application today To qualify: – At least 1 founder under the age of 30 – Company is based in the United States – Company has to…