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Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, was hard at work founding his second company when he realized something was missing that could help him achieve his dream.

“I made every possible mistake one could make as a rookie entrepreneur,” said Gerber of his first company. “After it failed, my mom said it was time to go get a real job, but to me that wasn’t possible. I wanted to take the lessons I learned from my first company and put them into a new business. Soon, I figured out what would help move me forward — a group of like-minded peers.”

That’s when the idea for the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only non-profit that brings together some of the sharpest young minds in the startup and entrepreneur world, was born.

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