Teen Business Forum

The following is a guest post by Edel O’Mahony. Edel is the UK’s leading expert in energetic communications. She has over 30 years of experience and has helped hundreds of people to find their confidence and become magnificent. Her latest book 21 Steps to Confidence is available from Amazon.com. For more information please visit: www.pathofthepeacefulwarrior.com [...]

Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off today. It is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. So why should entrepreneurs celebrate it? Celebrate GEW with us all week with Teenpreneurs: Generation Next. 1. To Become A Sponge Becoming [...]

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. Today, I want to share with you a story of an amazing entrepreneurial team led by Alex Bouzari, CEO of Data Direct. In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds, Alex and I explore the company’s journey to $200 Million in revenue, [...]

As an entrepreneur, I need to make many decision everyday. What names shall I use for my new idea? How do I file for a trademark? Which corporate structure do I use? The list goes on. Another question is, which bank do I choose? There are a ton of choices and one size does not [...]

During today’s roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a [...]

During today’s roundtable, we had a lot of discussion around non-profits and for-profits. Foundups Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups, which he claims will be a platform for Open Corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. It’s [...]

At today’s roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly – the Internet’s obsession with FREE. MyStream Richard Zelson, from New York, New York, discussed MyStream, a music streaming app that allows multiple people to listen to the playlist of one individual, serving, roughly speaking, the function of a [...]

This interview was conducted by Stephen Perkins and was originally posted on his blog. Tony Smith‘s interest in graphic design began while he was still in school. Today, he has turned that interest into a wildly successful graphic design studio. On top of that, he also runs a branding company that is starting to take on [...]

There is way too much free stuff out there. Some of them are not very good. As an entrepreneur, I come to realize that nothing is free. And they shouldn’t be. If an entrepreneur built something that offers value, they should charge for it. The Need To Monetize A few days ago, I brought a [...]

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you [...]