Best Young Entrepreneurs 2011
Young entrepreneurs have known for years that by creating a blog, they can easily and efficiently grow their business. Creating revenue from a blog is an increasingly popular trend among Generation Y, and the GenYRants team wanted to make sure to reward some prominent entrepreneurs.
We want to share with you the blogs that we find inspiring, helpful, and innovative, and that can maybe push you to do that one thing you’ve always wanted, but never “had time for.” Get inspired by the blogs that we are sharing with you; there is no greater learning tool than your peers.
We scoured the Internet to find you the best Gen Y blogs out there, and this list is our result.
- Founder: Jenny Blake: Twitter: @Jenny_Blake
- Jenny Blake has a great brand and process of what she has built. She has grown her brand to heights that are un-imaginable. With her new book out Life after college she describes some amazing concepts.
- Founder: Matt Cheuvront Twitter:@MattChevy
- Matt Chuvront offers a unique voice on his blog as he describes his experiences and growth being apart of the generation-y community. He offers great insight on multiple concepts and ideas.
- Founders: Jenn Pedde, Brett Petersel, David Spinks Twitter:@TheCMgr
- The community manager blog offers a great deal of information and insight being an community manager in today’s wacky social media life. The offer a great deal of resources and discussions that are really useful.
- Founder: Thomas Frank Twitter: @CollegeInfoGeek
- College Info Geek is a blog that helps you be awesome at college. They offer some of the best information for college students to enhance their minds and the choices that they make.
- Founder: Elysa Rice Twitter: @genpink
- Genpink offers a great abundant amount of discussions that you won’t hear any other place. You can hear some of the best topics around for women. Elysa places her own touch on topics that most people would never think of talking about.
- Founder: Mark Babbitt Twitter: @Youternmark
- Youtern is a company that offers the connection between the intern and the company. They offer a wide range of services from start-up companies all the way to fortune 500. They offer great resources to receive an internship.
- Founder: Amanda Abella Twitter: @amandaabella
- Grad Meets World talks about a range of ideas that generation-y should be concerned about. With ideas from financial to education that Amanda talks about. She has a true passion for her generation and teaching others.
- Founder: Diana Antholis Twitter: @DianaAntholis
- Enter: Adulthood offers the unique voice of talking about the issues that 20 something people have when entering into “adulthood”. Diana places a special voice in describing experiences,thoughts, and feelings when entering into adult life.
- Founder: Lauren Berger Twitter: @InternQueen
- Intern Queen offers information and resources to women on interning for companies and building a community of engaging people. Lauren has built a brand centered around assisting people in understanding about internships.
The Young Entrepreneur Council
- Founder: Scott Gerber Twitter: @theYEC
- The Young Entrepreneur Council is a company that talks about how most young people can start and expand their companies. They showcase some of the top young talent in the world and how they got there. Scott has built a great brand and company that has assisted and taught thousands of people.
- Founder: Chrisitan Hollingsworth Twitter: @Smartboydesigns
- Christian has a great brand and community that he has created centered around assisting people with understanding how to make money online. He has built a community around engagement and a true commitment for teaching people.
- Founders: Lisa & Derek Twitter: @20SB
- 20 Something Bloggers offers a great platform for young bloggers to engage and meet other people to enhance their blogging community. This company has one of the best communities around that offers the best tools and resources.
- Founders: Jared and Matt Twitter: @under30ceo
- Under 30 Ceo has offered some of the best topics and discussions for years now. Offering interesting resources and tools to assist generation-y in becoming better business savy people.
- Founder: Caleb Wojcik Twitter: @calebwojcik
- Pocket Changed is a great financial blog that talks about topics that are important within the gen-y community. Caleb discusses his financial journey with others and his experiences that he has taken along the way.
- Founder: Lewis Howes Twitter: @Lewis Howes
- Lewis has built an amazing brand around assisting people in understanding how LinkedIn works and the relationships you can create. From his multiple product releases and speeches he has taught thousands of people on increasing your knowledge on LinkedIn and building relationships.
- Founder: Darrell Vesterfelt Twitter: @dvest
- Darrell offers a unique voice as he describes his multiple passions for helping people and sharing his experiences with people. He has gained a loyal following of people that only seems to increase.
- Founder: Aaron Lee Twitter: @Askaaronlee
- Aaron has built an amazing community around assisting people with understanding the value of Twitter and how you can grow an engaging community around it. With his great insight and effort he has done some great things.
- Founders: Adam & Matthew Toren Twitter: @YoungTrep
- Young Entrepreneur offers an endless amount of information for entrepreneurs helping them be better. They offer some great resources that you would need when starting out and what would keep you at your best.
- Founder: Erin Blaskie Twitter: @ErinBlaskie
- Erin has created an amazing brand and blog around helping people with internet marketing. She has an amazing insight about outsourcing, internet marketing, virtual assistants, and social media. She is sharing her knowledge with everyone and you should listen.
- Founder: Ramit Sethi Twitter: @ramit
- Ramit has a great deal of knowledge about how you should control your finances. With his book he has explained so much information to others on how to take your financial life back. He is a great mentor and teacher to the generation-y community.
- Founder: Greg Rollett Twitter: @GregRollett
- Greg is the CEO of Radically Ambitious, which is an Internet Marketing and Lifestyle business that works with young entrepreneurs. One of his biggest projects is Gen-Y Rock Stars and the New Music Economy, which helps musicians create an entrepreneurial business based on their musical talents. He has had many life experiences, and is now sharing them with his followers.
- Founder: Colin Wright Twitter: @ColinIsMyName
- Colin created Exile LIfestyle to share his experiences as a young entrepreneur with the world. He lives a life of minimalism, mobility, and sustainability, and is continually changing his ideas. He blogs about things that spark his interest in society.
- Founder: Dan Schawbel Twitter: @DanSchawbel
- Dan Schawbel is a world renowned branding expert, and founded Personal Branding Blog in 2007. It teaches entrepreneurs how to “create their career and command their future.” The blog includes video podcasts, interviews with experts in the field, articles, research reports, and even games.
- Founder: Corey Shanes Twitter: @Branding4U
- Building A Brand Online began as a 12 week course for students to learn how to utilize blogs to their fullest potential. Corey Shanes now shows his “students” how to expand their business online via using a blog, video, and Facebook groups. He also teaches how to monetize your site.
- Founder: Chris Pund Twitter: @Chrispund
- For 6 years, Dorm Room Biz has been a great resource for young entrepreneurs to learn about the best way to launch their own company from their dorm room. Dorm Room Biz also teaches Gen Y about blogging, monetizing websites, marketing, bootstrapping, business ideas, and shares success stories.
- Founder: Grace Boyle Twitter: @Gracekboyle
- Small Hands, Big Ideas covers a plethora of topics that relate to Gen Y directly – and helps us navigate them along the way. Grace writes about being 20-something woman in a tech startup, her daily inspirations, careers, moving, relationships and general ideas.
I am so excited about this list! I can’t wait for people to get inspired by it and find all of the incredible blogs that are out there!
Thanks so much!
You’re welcome and thanks for stopping by.
Justice Wordlaw IV recently posted..Running Your Life Like A Hunny Bee
Your welcome
Ah thank you!!! I wish my work PC had speakers so I could listen!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing some great content.
Justice Wordlaw IV recently posted..Running Your Life Like A Hunny Bee
Your welcome and thanks for sharing a great voice with our community.
Ah thank you!!! I wish my work PC had speakers so I could listen!
@MagicBeansInc thank you.
You’re kind to include me here Justice! Thank you for putting together a valuable resource for others, being supportive of worthwhile pursuits – and teaching a new generation what it means to have dreams!
So grateful to be on this list! You give such strong support and encouragement to the new generation Justice! Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks for stopping by Christian and being apart of the community.
Thanks bro.
your welcome
Thank you so much, Justice! I’m honored to be on this list — among many friends and fellow rock-stars — you included! Have a great weekend
Your welcome Jenny. Excited to see your product launch coming soon.
Congrats to everyone on this list! This is fabulous!
Thanks Courtney and for your amazing content that you share.
Thanks so much for the mention! Great list you have here
Your welcome Erin
Thanks very much for included me amongst such great company. Cheers!
Your welcome Matt.
Some of my great buddies are on this list! Nice job tossing this together!
Rich
@CornOnTheJob
Thanks Rich. It was fun going through and finding some great entrepreneurs to feature.
Thanks for the mention my friend…. I’m honored!
@colinismyname Hey don’t lie to yourself, you deserve it! You’re a source of inspiration for me! #NotEvenKidding
I adore Grace.
Hey thanks for including Building A Brand Online here.
Just now came across this! Thanks so much for the mention; it gives confirmation to all the work we’ve been doing
Glad to see GenY Rants taking off as well!
Your welcome Thomas and thanks as well.