Tara Bosch, the founder of better-for-you candy brand SmartSweets, explained how prioritizing a lean business model in its early development enabled the company to be nimble and outpace its competitors, why its growth strategy is built around “patient urgency” and how the brand’s highly effective social media strategy drives consumers to its retailers.
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Their creators are all some of the youngest entrepreneurs I know members of Generation Z.
As an investor and advisor, I’ve been lucky to work with all kinds of entrepreneurs over the last decades. But seeing the youngest cohort in action has been especially inspiring. While I’ve been mentoring them, I’ve learned a lot about their approach to business and the factors that have shaped their ambitions.
New class includes 24 entrepreneurs in Software, Healthcare, Blockchain and more
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Thiel Foundation today named 24 people into the 2020 class of Thiel Fellows. The Fellowship program, which launched in 2011, encourages talented young people to pursue big ideas and start companies instead of attending college.
“Of all the bad ideas permeating college campuses, the worst is the self-serving myth that everybody has to go to college, and pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it,” said Blake Masters, President of the Thiel Foundation. “This is even more obvious when ‘college’ just means wasting time on Zoom.”