“I find myself saying over and over: ‘Baby steps count. But you’ve always got to be moving forward,” says Chris Gardner. If you are aware of the story of Chris Gardner and the many, many obstacles that he has encountered on the road to becoming a successful entrepreneur, then you will know that anything is [...]

Laundry…laundry…laundry… yup, every week or two it’s that time again. It’s not fun, it’s not pretty, and it surely can be a big waste of time for many of us. But, like many things in life, it’s just one of those things that need to be done…. Unless you don’t care about how you look, [...]

Hands down, one of the best resources for entrepreneurs is the popular magazine Business 2.0. You probably read, Entrepreneur Magazine, eh? Well, if you haven’t subscribed to Business 2.0 then what are you waiting for? Get yourself a copy. This magazine has a strong slant on internet-based companies, which is a huge plus for all [...]

Twenty year-old Andrew Cargill of UK launches Pocket Plant. Being inspired by his entrepreneur hero, Richard Branson, Andrew decided to bring this latest Japanese craze to his home country. The concept of Pocket Plant is to be able to have a mini pet plant that you can take with you anywhere you go. Nice and [...]

Who will create the next Google? Who will create the next Microsoft? You want to know who I’m putting my money on? I’m putting my money on some young, motivated, hungry, dorm-room entrepreneur with the passion to change the world by creating the next big thing. Or perhaps the young student simply trying to solve [...]

I’ve had it, you’ve had it, we’ve all had it – Feature Creeper. You know, when that urge to layer on more and more features on top of your core product or service. What started out to be a solid, concise, and simple idea, is now an overweight monster than is filled with bells, whistles, [...]

As young entrepreneurs, many of us have our own special entrepreneur that we look up to. Sure, you have Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison, but one very intriguing entrepreneur that I have recently become interested in is the one and only Richard Branson – yeah, the owner of Virgin Group. Like many other [...]

Yup, we all have them. We all have brilliant ideas and innovative concepts as young entrepreneurs (albeit, many of us never capitalize on them). Mind Petals is glad to introduce the Innovation column. In this column we will uncover some of the most innovative concepts from young entrepreneurs all over the world and how they [...]