Start-Ups Fever

The success of the entrepreneurs behind Dell, Google, YouTube, and Facebook will undoubtedly inspire a growing breed of the young, energetic, and self-reliant who are more than willing to gamble that their startups will fly. But it's not just about role models. The start-ups idea usually came from passion, rebellion from traditional career path, and even recession (read: layoff). So when we set out to find the latest batch of fresh faces and examine what makes their businesses tick, it wasn't surprising to see their ages skewing younger and their ideas getting smarter. And for generation Y who have nothing to lose, yet, why not taking chances? They are willing to go extra miles such as sleepless nights and have peanut butter or ramen noodles everyday -- they are used to it anyway in college! I guess that's the beauty of the youth.

Here's the list of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs based on Bloomberg Business Week. (they are all in mid 20s!)

2008
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2008/sb2008098_467315.htm
2009
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2009/sb2009106_810168.htm
2010
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2010/sb20100922_312662.htm
 

Asia's Best Young Entrepreneur 2009
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0911_asias_best_young_entrepreneurs/index.htm

Seriously, they are all worth reading.