Group Effort
It takes a village to raise an entrepreneur: Meet the chief.
Is it difficult to start a business? Yes. Do you wish you had
mentors to turn to sometimes when entrepreneurship gets scary? Of
course. Never fear. There's a place where you can find
camaraderie, guidance and fellow start-ups: YoungStartup Inc.
Founded by 24-year-old Joseph Benjamin in 1999, YoungStartup is
a community of entrepreneurs and experts alike. Frustrated by the
lack of support he found in his own quest to start a business,
Benjamin was determined to be the trailblazer in helping the
younger set network and offering them guidance. "We understand
what the entrepreneurs have gone through-we're entrepreneurs
ourselves," he says. "We know what they want, and we know
we can give it to them."
"It" includes access to information, virtual
networking through www.youngstartup.com, real-life
networking events (held in New York City and eventually
nationwide), and a willingness to listen to and work with
entrepreneurs (of any age) with drives to start their own
businesses.
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