New Crop of Young Entrepreneurs Eager to Launch Their Own Start-Ups

May 22, 2008

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, at 23, has been described as America's youngest self-made billionaire. Tech's latest wonderboy may also be Exhibit A for a broader phenomenon - an extraordinary new iteration of young entrepreneurs eager to change the digital landscape.

Strikingly, many are in their early 20s or younger - and were in elementary school when the world first learned to surf the Internet. Now they are coming of age when the Web has matured into a robust global marketplace and software advances have driven down development costs.

By Scott Duke Harris Mercury News

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