About
Founded in October of 2009, Unstrapp’d is a place for the next generation of entrepreneurs to avoid the boring textbook talk and theory about building businesses and hear the brutal facts and real life stories from the experts and from peers right there with them in the trenches.
Unstrapp’d digs deep in topics such as productivity, time management, college business, internet marketing, social media, branding and of course, bootstrapping. The typical reader is Generation-Y born, which can range from high school students to corporate executives interested in all areas entrepreneurship. This site is intended specifically for Gen-Y, yet we DO NOT discriminate by age. Everyone is welcome. We are all just as old as we feel.
What Is Generation-Y?
Gen-Y is 80 million is strong worldwide. The approximate age bracket is from 15-35. Ninety percent of Gen-Yers in the US own a PC, while 82 percent own a mobile device. They Spend $200 billion per year and have major influence on parent spending.
Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full-time job. Today, 80% of the colleges and universities in the U.S. now offer courses on entrepreneurship; 60% of Gen Y business owners consider themselves to be serial entrepreneurs, according to Inc. magazine. Tellingly, 18- to 24-year-olds are starting companies at a faster rate than 35- to 44-year-olds. And 70% of today’s high schoolers intend to start their own companies, according to a Gallup poll.
-Michael S. Malone | Wall Street Journal
