All through my life I've craved freedom. Crazy as it sounds to some elders, Tabin isn't even an eccentric. In his generation, he's one of the crowd. Booming new technologies in a nine-year economic expansion have spawned a class of rich, youthful, CEO role models. At the same time, the obstacles to going it alone have shrunk in a dreamy environment of low interest rates and plentiful capital.
Personal prosperity is another springboard.
Many, it turns out, got a taste of entrepreneurship as teenagers and grew up cynical about a corporate world that downsized their parents. As college grads in 1991, they knew they wanted to start their own company. Youthful dreams of entrepreneurship seem to be on the rise. But there are plenty of indications youthful entrepreneurship is surging. Early data suggest they're succeeding and failing at about the same rate as older and presumably more experienced business owners.