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quizbiz on June 21, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Entrepreneurship Is Not Sexy

"It's immensely cool to be an entrepreneur now... 'when I was at university, the cool guys all pretended to be in a band, now they all pretend to be entrepreneurs'"

- The Economist, Special Report on Entrepreneurship, March 14, 2009 (http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13216025)

jamesbritt on June 22, 2009 [–]

Having a start-up is Punk 2.0

Maybe Y Combinator is the new CBGB.

dan_the_welder on June 22, 2009 | [–]

OMG.CBGB? FTW!

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