There is certainly nothing new about entrepreneurship. It has been the backbone of the American economy from the start. But until recently, the vast majority of people in this country worked at a steady job for someone else who was an entrepreneur, or whose father or grandfather was. Today that balance is shifting, as members of Generation Y grow up and look around at what the world has to offer them in the way of occupations and livelihoods.

Increasingly, people in their middle 20s or younger are deciding that the corporate lifestyle simply isn’t interesting, challenging, or rewarding enough. With confidence, skill, and a set of unprecedented technical tools, they are inventing their own jobs and often their own new companies.

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