Occasionally there are those real self-made young entrepreneurs. Those I respect the most.
There is that one guy whose name escapes me. I think he's Indian, he's a really good looking guy, he came from a relatively poor immigrant family, started something at 16, he's around 26 now and worth $500m. I just can't think of his name, but he qualifies.
> Everytime I hear of young startups it's always been a young entrepeneur, who happens to have a rich father, who happens to be a VC, who just happens to live in SV. If it's not MyWeboo, it's MyYearbook.
And another: milo.com
Show me the young entrepreneur that raises capital by washing cars on weekends, selling lemonade, or busting ass at McDonalds. I'd have a startup too if money wasn't a problem, I had daddy's connections and could get my startup featured in yahoo.
Anyway, everytime I see these "youth-targeted" websites I think, limited appeal to a slowly shrinking demographic. Whose sole existence is to be acquired by a facebook or yahoo because they haven't developed a longterm strategy.