Twentysomething Entrepreneurs

By Aaron Ricadela, Olga Kharif, Catherine Holahan, Heather Green, and Arik Hesseldahl (Excerpt from BusinessWeek)

Once again, BusinessWeek.com editors have surveyed the tech landscape to identify the industry’s most promising entrepreneurs aged 30 and under. We assembled this year’s list with input from venture capitalists, our readers, and BusinessWeek editorial staff. Whose ideas and innovations are likely to make the biggest impact on technology in the coming years? The full list follows. We include the names of the finalists, the companies their ideas spawned, and their advice for would-be entrepreneurs in the midst of an economic slowdown.

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