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Generation Y Diving into Entrepreneurship

September 8, 2010 by

[HTML1] Stephanie Kaplan is the fourth guest in Keeping Up with Gen Y’s new monthly series, “Y Gen Entrepreneurs.” Stephanie is co-founder and CEO of Her Campus Media, an online magazine for college women, produced entirely by the nation’s top student journalists.

Stephanie joins Keeping Up with Gen Y to talk about the importance of finding the right business partners when beginning a new company.  She also challenges would-be young entrepreneurs to move past the need for certainty and take that plunge into the start up pool.

More about Stephanie Kaplan
Stephanie Kaplan is co-founder and the CEO of Her Campus Media, an online magazine for college women, produced entirely by the nation’s top student journalists.  The site, launched in September 2009, was created after Stephanie and fellow Harvard undergrads Windsor Hanger and Annie Wang won Harvard’s business plan competition. The magazine has since grown to a team of 500+ college students with branches at more than 50 colleges nationwide.

In addition to its role as an online content provider, Her Campus serves as a marketing platform that connects companies with college students across the country in creative ways.  The site has been featured on ABC, AOL, and in The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, Business Insider, Seventeen.com, and YPulse.com among others. Her Campus also has formed content partnerships with Seventeen and The Huffington Post, and worked with brands including New Balance, Juicy Couture, Rent the Runway, Lauren Merkin, and more.  In July 2010, Stephanie and her co-founders were named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs.

Stephanie is a 2010 graduate of Harvard University where she majored in Psychology and minored in Economics. And as if she doesn’t have enough to do, Stephanie has been admitted to the Harvard Business School Class of 2014.

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About Tamara Bell

Tamara Bell is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Y Gen Out Loud, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that provides a platform for Generation Yto discuss national politics and public policy issues.

Tamara began her journalism career as a staff reporter for the Dallas Times Herald. A few years later, she moved to York, Pa., as a political reporter for the York Dispatch, covering local, state, and national government as well as writing investigative stories for the mid-sized daily newspaper.

A Texas girl at heart, Tamara returned to Dallas a year later to work as press relations director for the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. John Bryant. The next year, she moved to Austin and the Texas Legislature, where she stayed for 15 years. While at the Legislature, Tamara worked for Democratic House members as Chief-of-Staff and Press Secretary, and as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Senate State Affairs Committee chaired by a Republicansenator.

In 1996, Tamara became co-owner of a political newsletter covering state issues and elections. As Editor-in-Chief, Tamara helped shape the weekly publication into a must-read for state officials, legislative aides, and lobbyists. More recently, Tamara wrote a regular column analyzing coverage by the Texas Capitol Press Corps for an online political publication. She also works as a lecturer in the Advertising Department at The University of Texasat Austin.

Tamara has also been a judge for the 2010 Bright Ideas Award given by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association, served as a panelist at the Society of Professional Journalists 2010 Region 8 Conference where the theme was How to Save Journalism, and has been a guest lecture for the Advertising Department’s Internship course, speaking about the jobs outlook for graduating seniors.

Tamara earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin, and her B.A. in Journalism from Texas A&M University. She resides in Austin with her son, Jackson.

Tamara Bell is also the Host of Keeping Up with Gen Y on WomensRadio. Keeping Up with Gen Y offers discussions, interviews, and commentary about important issues of the day from the perspective of Generation Y (18-to 30-years-old). Aimed at all generations interested in learning about and inspiring young people, this show features professionals, experts, researchers, and members of Gen Y who share insights and experiences about the topics on the minds of today’s young adults.