Young Entrepreneurs

By: Russ | Published: July 20, 2010 | Filed under: Entrepreneurs, Sunshine Suites

Recently, Businessweek ran a piece on young people and startups, and how the number of those fresh out of college who are jumping into starting there own businesses is dropping recently.

Across almost all industrialized countries, unemployment rates are highest among people just out of college. In the U.S., 17.2 percent of 20- to 24-year-olds are out of work. Clearly we need to do something to remedy this problem now and prevent it in the future

The BusinessWeek article highlights several things that can be done, immediately, to continue to attract young people to starting their own businesses. In the words of BusinessWeeks:

Developing policy to increase rates of entrepreneurship among young people requires an understanding of why young people tend not to start their own businesses. So why aren’t more young people entrepreneurs?

Who are your favorite young entrepreneurs? Tell us in the comments!