On smartphones, kids and entrepreneurism
The best (and essentially only non-Egyptian) thing Patrick had the time to read this week was Brian X. Chen’s “What’s the Right Age for a Child to Get a Smartphone?” for the NY Times. Our resident eight-year-old, having subsequently read the story with her mom, still isn’t convinced that the under-14 set shouldn’t have phones. She does, however, think the family contract is a great idea. (And no, tomorrow being your ninth birthday doesn’t mean you’re old enough to have a phone…)
Meanwhile, Patrick thinks Inc Magazine’s annual “How I Did It” issue should be required reading for wannabe entrepreneurs. He would have read this year’s package this week had he had time. Instead, it’s this morning’s reading. Grab the print magazine if you can, or tap through the list below so you don’t have to search for this year’s stories manually on Inc’s really horrible website.
- Meet the Entrepreneur Behind Fashion’s Biggest Insurgent Brand (Milk)
- What I Did the Day After Selling My Company for USD 400 mn (NYX Cosmetics)
- Why Dyslexia Became the Key to This Founder’s Success (LiveIntent)
- How Lyft’s Founders Listened to Their Gut (and Not Their Mentor)
- (Lyft)
- This Entrepreneur Made 25,000 Cold Calls to Build a USD 250 mn Weather Business. (AccuWeather)
- How to Succeed in a New Market (Even When You Don’t Speak the Language)
- How This Company Moved Its Operations 600 Miles in the Middle of the Night (Gekks)
- How This Founder Rediscovered a Century-Old Razor Bump Solution (Walker and Company’s)
- ‘Shark Tank’ Star Robert Herjavec on Mark Cuban: ‘If He Did It, Why Not Me?’
- How I Coped With My Co-Founder’s Death and Built an USD 85 mn Company (Late July Snacks)
- This Fashion Startup Raised USD 100 mn Serving the Plus-Size Woman (Gwynnie Bee)
- How This Entrepreneur Turned His Drone Disaster Into USD 8 mn in Funding (Drone Racing League)