50 Best Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs

Published on Tuesday 9th 2010f November, 2010

Generation Y is poised to redefine the way we do business in America and globally, but that doesn't mean smart business strategies are inherently a part of your young DNA. Whether you go to business school or fail a few times on your own, you'll need to learn some basic business principles and discover how to communicate and collaborate in the real world before finding success. These blogs can help you communicate, collaborate, master the science of SEO and social media marketing, shake hands like a professional and more, whether you're expanding your lawn mowing business or promoting sustainable building in South America.

Find helpful guides, toolkits and other resources to help you turn your business idea into a successful company.

1. YoungEntrepreneur.com: This website and blog is devoted to sharing business tools, how-to guides and other resources for young, ambitious entrepreneurs. Recommended Posts: The Key to Success: Ambition or Competition and Social Media for the Budding Entrepreneur Series -- LinkedIn
2. WorkHappy.net: Entrepreneurs will find "killer resources" from this blog, including everything you need for project management, website management and design, CRM, and more. Recommended Posts: Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner and Founder of Threadless keepin' it real
3. Start-Up Toolkit: This Inc.com blog is from social media expert Howard Greenstein, and here he shares solid tips for designing and executing your business model, networking and collaborating, leveraging, and more. Recommended Posts: Motivation Lessons from Summer Camp and PR Stunts and Start-Ups
4. Small Business Trends: Check this blog and resource for tips and tools to improve your marketing strategies, website design, brand management, and more. Recommended Posts: 6 Ways to Be More Productive and Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog: Look for business opportunities -- or just find inspiration -- from the posts on Dane Carlson's blog for entrepreneurs. Recommended Posts: Why Everyone Needs a Side Income and 5 Free Things for New Entrepreneurs
5. Business Pundit: Lots of entrepreneurs turn to this blog for resources and commentary on the latest trends in business and innovation. Recommended Posts: 15 Businesses You Can Start With $5,000 or Less and 5 Business Building Lessons From 5 Unique Entrepreneurs
6. Making It Legal: This Entrepreneur.com blog will supplement -- or take the place of -- business law classes as you navigate your way around contracts, regulations and loopholes. Recommended Posts: Five Rules for Collecting Late Payments and Anatomy of a Loan Document
7. YSN: Your Success Network has tips and tools for students, young professionals and those who think they know it all already. Recommended Posts: Help! I'm an Entrepreneur and My Family Doesn't Support Me and The Entrepreneurial Decision
8. Growing Forward: You'll learn how to fit in with other professionals, even if you're just out of college or high school, when you read this blog. Recommended Posts: Which 5 Powers is Your Favorite? and How to Use Your Career GPS

These bloggers share stories of failure and success, and you can learn from their lessons and innovative ideas here.

10. Venture Voice: This blog and podcast interviews entrepreneurs and business leaders to educate other ambitious individuals. Recommended Posts: Online Social Network Entrepreneurs Social Network Offline and What Venture Capitalists Are Really Thinking
11. A Serial Entrepreneur's Perspective: Nolan Bushnell has started several companies like Chuck E. Cheese and Atari and pulls from his vast experience and business acumen here. Recommended Posts: The Product Nobody Wanted and An Easy Way to Learn Entrepreneurship
12. Musings from the Generation We Coach: This well-respected blog helps "evolving leaders" create companies that benefit society. Recommended Posts: No Regrets. But If I Had A Do-Over I Wish I'd Known and Is Your 'Tribe' a Reflection of Who You Want to Be?
13. Instigator Blog: Year One Labs founding partner Ben Yoskovitz uses this blog to store comments and analysis on today's business trends and also share his past experiences. Recommended Posts: Pitching Year One Labs and What I've Learned So Far and Founder DNA -- How Investors Evaluate Startup Founders
14. Global Entrepreneurship Week: This event serves to inspire creativity and innovation in young entrepreneurs, and the blog shares news and campaigns that advertise it around the world. Recommended Posts: GEW UK to Challenge Stereotypes and Shatter Myths and Dialogue Cafe: A New Initiative Promoting Cross-Border Collaboration
15. The Global Small Business Blog: It's never too early to start thinking about how you can bring your company into the global market, and Laurel Delaney's blog will help you get there. Recommended Posts: Enter China With Eyes Wide Open and Do You Have a Solid Online Global Footprint?
16. Young Upstarts: Learn about the ideas, people and trends that define young entrepreneurship today. Recommended Posts: Business Creator of the Year 2011 and Tips on Maximizing Time and Space

Whether or not you go to business school, visit these blogs for a comprehensive education on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur today.

17. Seth's Blog: Seth Godin's blog is widely read by entrepreneurs, industry leaders and professionals across all disciplines and all levels, but his short, smart posts on surviving -- then mastering -- the crazy world we live in are encouraging for young people, too. Recommended Posts: Efficiency is free and Organizing for joy
18. Daily Conversions: This simple blog from two Internet marketing experts is full of daily tips and insightful strategies for all business types that are easy to digest: no long-winded, self-righteous posts to be found. Recommended Posts: 6 Tips On How To Increase Your Lead Capture Page Conversions and Water is selling out, quick, everyone buy it!
19. Under30CEO: Get inspiration from your peers when you read interviews and features about young entrepreneurs here, while also getting great business tips. Recommended Posts: Ten Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness and 7 Traits You Need if You Want to Be An Entrepreneur
20. Harvard Business Review Blogs: There are countless resources that young entrepreneurs can find on the HBR Blog feed to help them cultivate original ideas, keep up with social media, and learn more about business strategy. Recommended Posts: Defeat Criticism Before It Goes Viral and Keeping Your Business Plan Flexible
21. Personal MBA Blog: This blog -- an extension of the popular book and education strategy from Josh Kaufman -- is all about providing free educational resources and tips to entrepreneurs and business-minded people. Recommended Posts: "Branding" is an Overrated Buzzword and How to Get a Valuable Education Without Mortgaging Your Life
22. The Entrepreneurial Mind: Belmont University's Dr. Jeff Cornwall writes this expert blog on being a successful, original entrepreneur, no matter what the economy is like. Recommended Posts: Everyone is NOT your Potential Customer and Tighten Belt before Overhead Expenses Add Up
23. The Entrepreneurial Generation: Donna Fenn and Scott Gerber blog for Inc.om and to help Generation Y become more adept at entrepreneurship. Recommended Posts: Training Young Entrepreneurs, One Lemonade Stand at a Time and An Incubator for Unreasonable Ideas
24. The Six Disciplines Blog: This blog has won awards for his business coaching posts and strategy tips. Recommended Posts: The CEO's Role and the Three Stages of Growth and Introducing Change Into Your Organization
25. TJ's Weblog: This is a terrific blog for browsing posts that offer basic but useful tips on a number of business topics, often ones that aren't usually addressed. Recommended Posts: VC Funding for Your Startup: What are the Odds? and The First Time You Hire...
26. Networking Entrepreneur: Even if you think you're a pro at networking, check this blog for new tips and strategies as your business grows. Recommended Posts: Make No Assumptions and Clueless When It Comes To Conversing? Four Tips
27. You're the Boss: This NYT blog comments on small business news while offering tips for finding clever ways for building a complete career as an entrepreneur and a solid reputation. Recommended Posts: A Creative Way to Sell Your Business and Do You Need a Recruiter to Hire a No. 2?
28. The Brazen Careerist Blog: This very popular career blog started by Penelope Trunk dispenses invaluable advice that's sometimes hard to swallow, but more practical and enlightening than anything you'll learn in business school. Recommended Posts: A Note From Penelope: How to Skip the Entry-Level Track and Chances Are You're A Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
29. DrivenLeaders.com: Posts on this blog fall into categories like employee engagement, Gen-Y, interviews, technology and personal branding, giving you a comprehensive education in entrepreneurship. Recommended Posts: Are You an Authentic Leader? and How to Deliver Bad News to a Group
30. UnStrapp'd: This blog is all about "how Gen-Y does business," and from the interviews and posts about entrepreneurship, branding and growing up, you'll discover ways to become a trailblazer yourself. Recommended Posts: Is Gen-Y Redefining the American Dream? and Do You Know The 3 C's Of Leadership?
31. Daily Entrepreneur Tip: Get Twitter-length tips each day from different business professionals that will help you build a business. Recommended Posts: Discover Your Brand Before You Promote It and Size Does Not Matter

You'll have to keep up with the people and trends that define the markets you want to break into if you want to influence business, too.

32. Fast Company: Keep up with business news and leaders in industries like media, publishing, design, tech, and more. Recommended Posts: Instapaper Founder Marco Arment's Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer and Leveling Up Your Staff: Zynga's Mark Pincus on Entrepreneurial Companies
33. Daily Dose: Entrepreneur.com's blog reports on successful business plans, mergers, CEO switch-ups, and more, while sharing books, tools and resources to get you started. Recommended Posts: Gen-Y: Buck Up and Start a Business and A Crash Course in Fame -- For Entrepreneurs
34. E360 Blog: Examine the top entrepreneurial news stories of the day as you learn how to reach customers and find your own spot in the market. Recommended Posts: Who Owns the Icehouse? and Business Planning: A Permission Based Approach
35. Small Business Watchdog: The official blog of the U.S. SBA Office of Advocacy, this feed features posts about policy and government guidelines, business statistics, and more. Recommended Posts: Hispanic-Owned Businesses Outpaced Overall Business Growth over 10-Year Period and RFA@30: Regulations, Cupcakes, Sunlight, and Looking Before You Leap
36. News You Can Use: Although this WomenEntrepreneur.com blog is technically geared towards female business owners and professionals, any entrepreneur can benefit from the commentary and "observations from the editor's desk." Recommended Posts: Want a Federal Contract? Your Chances Just Got Better and What the Facebook Fan Page Change Means to You: In Plain English
37. Growthology: Here you can read research and policy news and proposals for "entrepreneurial economies," giving you an edge when it comes to modeling your own company and working alongside the competition and the government. Recommended Posts: Breaking Through Barriers to Innovation and Startups are Everything
38. Small Business Labs: Keep up with this blog if you want to know what trends are about to impact your business plan. Recommended Posts: The Top 5 Coworking Myths and s Gen Y Too Soft For Entrepreneurship?

Get advice and inspiration from these young entrepreneurs who are so passionate about their careers that they want to help you, too.

39. 64 Notes: This blogger is just 18 and is collecting his notes on learning about entrepreneurship here. Recommended Posts: Ultimate Guide to Protecting your Million Dollar Idea and Most Dangerous Mistakes the Web-Startups Make & How to avoid it
40. WorkLoveLife: Holly Hoffman writes about small business, start-ups, and her experience consulting and building a successful career. Recommended Posts: I Want What You Have -- The New Mentorship and Small Business Superstitions and Why They Work
41. JuniorBiz: Young entrepreneurs -- teens and students -- are the focus on this resource and tips site from a CSU senior who's been starting up since he was 12 years old. Recommended Posts: 14 Teen Business Ideas for Young Entrepreneurs and Top 25 Young Entrepreneur Success Stories
42. Teen Entrepreneur Blog: Learn what other teen entrepreneurs are doing to make money and practice their business skills, get scholarship pointers, and more. Recommended Posts: Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding and Teen Entrepreneur Worth $15 million by age 19.
43. Ben Casnocha: Discover ways to get new ideas and execute the ones you already have from Ben's blog. Recommended Posts: Can You Be Shy and Still Succeed in Business? and Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming
44. Small Hands, Big Ideas: Grace Boyle's blog covers innovation, inspiration, and the ideas that turn into veritable careers and companies. Recommended Posts: The Inconvenience of Change: We Are Creatures of Habit and Measuring Success
45. Quick Sprout: Young entrepreneur Neil Patel's not afraid to boast that he's "kind of a big deal," and his blog is full of lessons learned and other practical tips to boost your own ventures. Recommended Posts: 7 Business Mistakes That Nearly Broke Me...Literally and Tony Soprano's Top 11 Tips for Success
46. Thrilling Heroics: This blog and inspirational life/business guide comes from "nomad entrepreneur" Cody McKibben. His posts encourage readers to accept new challenges and adventures that will change their perspectives on their personal lives and in their career pursuits. Recommended Posts: 6 Things You Are Currently Doing That Are GUARANTEEING You Will NEVER Live A Rich Nomadic Lifestyle and A Student's Guide to Mastering the Universe
47. Mind Petals: David Askaripour is a motivational speaker and Internet strategy consultant who blogs about personal development and taking charge of your own success. Recommended Posts: Some Quick Reading Tips and I'm Thankful for My Quarter-Life Crisis
48. Adam McFarland: Adam might be balding at the age of 28, but he's also got quite a CV. Read his blog to learn how he became a successful entrepreneur right out of college. Recommended Posts: Business Lifestyle Design and The Idea Chart
49. Social Pollination: Monica O'Brien is a young social media analyst and new-school marketing pioneer with lots of great tips for standing out at work or as you create your own path. Recommended Posts: Write about what you are learning to keep your blog fresh and How a medium-sized ecommerce store can compete with the big boys (and girls)
50. Retire@21: Michael is just 21 but has fantastic, practical tips and entrepreneur interviews that will show you how to get rich before you're 21. Recommended Posts: Cameron Herold - Raising Kids to Be Entrepreneurs and Catherine Cook Interview

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