Mogul Blogs: Promoting Young Entrepreneurs

As part of our goal to provide resources for college entrepreneurs, we've launched a new section called "Mogul Blogs." It will host blogs written by young entrepreneurs who are either in school, or have recently graduated and are starting companies. Each blog will have its own column that can be accessed by clicking on the start-up's logo on the right hand side section. At the same time, we'll promote all of the articles to the front page so that they're intertwined with our posts and that of all the other entrepreneurs who we hope will join us.

While magazines and media sites such as Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Inc. also cover entrepreneurs, they're mostly written by journalists. This is fine, but I believe the most meaning and value can be derived from stories and advice that are actually written by the entrepreneurs themselves. We hope this will drive more meaningful conversations and insight from those actually living an entrepreneurial life.

To kick start the section, Fan Bi, a student a Babson College and co-founder of Blank Label, has already joined College Mogul. His start-up aims to provide high quality, highly customizable, tailored suits, coats and smart casual wear for men and women. He's also part of the E-Tower at Babson College that serves as an incubator and 10 week entrepreneur program during the summer. Fan is originally from Australia, where he attends the University of New South Wales, but is studying abroad here in Boston for two semesters. You can check out his posts here.

We have several goals in doing this:

1. Provide more resources for entrepreneurs. By opening the conversation and enabling others to write about their learning experiences, we hope to broaden the scope and coverage of tools, successes, and insight that we provide.

2. Promote start-ups. Our goal is to help, inspire, and promote the growth of college entrepreneurship. What's a better way than providing a platform to aggregate more of these start-ups and the stories behind them?

3. Build traffic. It's not only a goal for ourselves, but a goal to help the companies that we come across. By building a community, we can help one another promote each other's articles and start-ups to ultimately build more traffic and exposer for one another.

4. Promote networking. We hope by promoting this community, that these entrepreneurs will not only write about their own companies, but also write articles, give feedback, and network with other entrepreneurs who are looking to be covered.

5. Provide more advice on entrepreneurship. There's no better way than to learn from other entrepreneurs. Mark Cuban once said he got started by studying the success stories of other entrepreneurs, what made them successful, and characteristics that increase the chance of getting companies off the ground.

6. Written for young entrepreneurs by entreprenuers. Although, Miles and I aren't working on our own start-ups (besides College Mogul as a side project) at the moment, we started several ventures in college and working at venture backed start-ups that we were early employees of. While this provides 2 different perspectives (and we're obviously still young), we need to make sure that this blog will always be for young entrepreneurs written by entrepreneurs. To continue that mission, we'll be continually inviting young entrepreneurs to share their stories, help one another launch and grow, and continue to inspire the growing wave of young entreprenuership.

If this sounds like something you're interested in. Shoot me an email with some background info on yourself and your company.