Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Nov 17, 2009, 8:54 am
Two years ago, I was watching the local news when an interesting and perplexing story took hold of the airwaves.  I looked up from my computer and read the headline on the screen:  “Girl Scout In ...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Nov 11, 2009, 9:41 am
For many Entrepreneurs, it’s inevitable, that day when you stand before someone that could very much change your life in an instant. Pitching investors could be rough, torrid but could also be v...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Nov 8, 2009, 11:53 pm
Ideas are the center of all the growth we have been able to achieve since making fire and the wheel all the way to iPhones and SUV’s. Someone had an idea to improve their lifestyle or the life o...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Oct 27, 2009, 6:42 pm
This brilliant post was written by Donna Fenn, I highly encourage you to pick up her book Upstarts! Small business owners are typically an optimistic lot, even in the face of dismal economic conditio...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Oct 21, 2009, 11:43 pm
I read a book some years back while in college. At the time I couldn’t understand why my professor ( Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering) would ask us to read it and wri...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Oct 14, 2009, 8:41 am
Image by mauricesvay via Flickr I have read many posts and heard alot of casts where people talk about quitting their day jobs or dropping off school to build their start-ups, that’s cool and a...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Oct 12, 2009, 8:15 am
Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via CrunchBase Every start-up shares the same primary objective: Get lots of people to join my service/use my product. It’s always the same regardless of ...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Oct 8, 2009, 11:05 am
Last spring, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment among 18 to 25-year-olds was a staggering 16.1%. That was grim news for college grads, plenty of whom headed straight to grad sch...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Sep 30, 2009, 12:13 pm
These days it seems like startups are springing up everywhere every single day and it’s a bit tiresome really to take it all in. All of a sudden myriads of people want to start companies, they d...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Sep 22, 2009, 12:55 am
Social Media and Web 2.0 has really swept across the internet community like wild fire and the effects it’s had are remarkable. When I decided to start building my start-up, I knew my main obsta...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Sep 15, 2009, 11:41 am
Usually the beginning of an Entrepreneurial journey is the conception of the idea. It is what follows after that determines how successful your business will become however. Every business is unique i...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Sep 9, 2009, 8:23 pm
Many young entrepreneurs are guilty of starting a Marketing campaign only after they have launched their product or their website has gone live. I have come to learn that it is a better idea starting ...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Sep 4, 2009, 11:22 am
At this stage of development, my start-up is starting to take shape and things are finally beginning to fall into place. A section of the site will contain videos that cannot be downloaded or embedded...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 31, 2009, 12:35 pm
This is a post I have been working on for quite a few weeks now and only just concluded that it’s got enough information and ready to be shared. Each day I stumble on myriads of blog posts about how...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 25, 2009, 2:42 pm
Many people just know you as the awesome blogger and power woman behind Brazen Careerist, can you let us a little into the world of Miss Trunk? I like to think that each of us working on the same stu...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 21, 2009, 10:53 pm
I was once told that if I can’t explain my company and what it does in a sentence or two at most, then I have no idea what the company does. Ever since then I have tried to fit most of my ideas and ...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 17, 2009, 12:06 pm
I recently came across this website called IdealPitch and thought I needed to share with other entrepreneurs. I am personally not so big on VCs but if you’ve been involved in a start-up in the past,...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 14, 2009, 4:13 pm
I was just thinking about the things that really fire up young entrepreneurs these days and decided to pen down a few. There are quite a few things that certainly warm my heart as a gen y entrepreneur...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 14, 2009, 3:43 am
I was debating whether to tweet this or make in into a blog post, but i decided that 140 characters won’t do justice to what I intend to share. I have only just started work on my latest start-u...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 11, 2009, 7:04 pm
Did you say that you meant well and it wasn’t your fault? That you couldn’t be in 10 places at the same time and that you had no clue it was happening in your company? I doubt people will accept t...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 9, 2009, 12:49 pm
Is there really a perfect time for one to start a business? I ask myself that question a lot and always seemed to come up with the same answer. I have never had to explain my reasoning until yesterday...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 4, 2009, 7:52 pm
One of my favorite quotes reads: “If you always wait for the perfect conditions, you will never get anything done”. I have always lived my life with these words at the back of my mind. I mean back...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 2, 2009, 4:43 pm
Image via Wikipedia Many entrepreneurs constantly face the battle for cashflow and a lot of times, money (the lack of it) is the reason why start-ups fail even before they’ve started. I have read m...
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Tolu Babalola posted an article on Generation-Y Startup - Aug 1, 2009, 10:50 am
When I first entered college, it wasn’t long before I heard the words “internship”. I would hear that word all throughout college and how important they were. My name is James and ...
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