I am just 15 and I am too young to start my own blog, start my own business and so on. If you are being deceived it is better for you not to deceive yourself . There are many teenagers out there who are millionaires or even billionaires.One thing I know fully well about them is that they discovered there talent and pursued their dreams in the early stages of their lives you don't have to wait until you clock 18 or until you enter a university to go after your dream once you discover your talent work on it fast to be a success early in your life. We have seen many entrepreneurs that are as young as 15 years of age so age doesn't matter. Below is a list of the 10 youngest and successful entrepreneurs with a boy as young as 9 years old
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| Hart Main |
Hart Main is a 14-year old that came up with the idea of manly scented
candles when he was teasing his sister about the girly scented ones she
was selling for a school fundraiser. Although she didn't expect him to
fully pursue the manly scented candles idea himself, he did, and the
idea has turned into a nationwide success. Main put in an initial
investment of $100, his parents put in $200, and they all worked
together to develop the candles as a group. The available scents
include: Campfire, Bacon, Sawdust, Fresh Cut Grass, Grandpa's Pipe and
more. Today, ManCans candles are in over 60 stores across the country
and have sold about 9,000 units. Main will stick with selling ManCans'
inventory until he has to shift his focus back into school in the fall. I
mean, he is only 14 after all.
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| Charlotte Fortin |
Charlotte is a young high school graduate that followed in both
her father's and grandfather's entrepreneur footsteps when she decided
to open up a business of her own called Wound Up. Inspired by some small
and funky boutiques in California, Wound Up was opened to be a women's
clothing store targeting women between the ages 18 to 40. The store's
merchandise includes blouses, shorts, skirts and dresses. Fortin says
that she has quickly grown up, and become much more responsible and
conscious because of the experience. Also, despite working an average of
nine hours a day, she is still able to keep in touch with her close
friends.
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| Caine Monroy |
Caine Monroy is only nine years old and already a business owner.
He's an arcade owner to be exact. After constructing a makeshift
cardboard arcade and setting it up in his father's auto parts store in
L.A., his business has been the talk of the town with television crews
and enthusiastic children coming through daily. Probably because Caine
sells $1 and $2 tickets that allow 4 plays and 500 plays respectively.
Caine also sells $15 T-shirts that say, "Caine's Arcade" on them.
Although it is unclear how much money his arcade business has made so
far, in donations alone he has already raised over $212,000. His success
is supposedly largely owed to an 11-minute video that features the
young entrepreneur that ended up going viral on Vimeo and YouTube.
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| Jack Kim |
Jack Kim is a Seattle teenager that founded Benelab, a search engine
that generates donations. Kim had made some search engines in the past
and quickly learned the power of a search engine in generating revenue
from little traffic. He says the search engine's mission is "to make
philanthropy easy and more accessible." After establishing the "no
adults" rule, Kim began recruiting classmates to be part of his
"non-profit organization with a startup vibe" team. Kim is unsure about
what will happen to Benelab when he graduates, but his goal is to get
the company to $100,000 before high school ends.
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| Willow Tufano |
Willow Tufano is a 14-year old girl from Florida who's mom works
in real estate. Florida was hit hard by the recession, and houses that
once sold for $100,000 were now being sold at auctions for $12,000.
Tufano had made some money already by clearing houses and selling the
possessions on craigslist. So, when she presented the idea of buying a
house for herself, her mom was onboard and gave her the support she
needed. They bought a house, and in less than a year they were renting
it out for $700 a month. They have already got their initial investment
back. Tufano plans on buying her mother completely out in the coming
years. With the housing market potentially picking back up again, she
may see an amazing appreciation unfold. Not bad for a 14-year old.
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| Garrett Gee |
Garrett Gee turned a lucky guess into a business opportunity when the
iPad 2 was about to come out. This university student guessed that once
the iPad 2 came out, there soon would be a blog post somewhere listing
the top 10 apps for the device. After recognizing there should be easier
to use and less clunky QR code software and apps, he made it his
mission to be the first one to offer such a product fit for the iPad 2.
He quickly got the iPad 2 into the hands of his iOS developer, and after
spending two sleepless nights, he had accomplished his goal. His guess
about the blog post was also correct. Thanks to his hard work, he made
it onto that list. He recruited two fellow classmates, and they launched
Scan in February 2011. The team raised $1.5 million from venture capitalists,
including Google Ventures, and in the first year Scan earned 10 million
downloads. The number of downloads grew quickly, reaching 21 million by
October 2011. Gee's next move is said to be the development of a
monetization plan.
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| Cameron Johnson | |
Cameron Johnson got his start at the age of nine making
invitations for his parents' holiday party. Two years later Johnson had
made thousands of dollars selling cards through his company he called
Cheers and Tears. At age 12, he paid $100 for his sister's
30 Beanie Babies and sold them on eBay for 10 times what he paid. He
then purchased the dolls directly from the manufacturer and made a
$50,000 profit in less than a year. He used that money to start an
Internet business that brought in $3,000 per month in advertising
revenue. By the time he was 15, he had formed other businesses with
total revenues of $300,000 to $400,000 per month.
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| Catherine Cook |
Fifteen-year-old Catherine Cook and her brother were looking at a
yearbook and thought it would be a good idea to build a social media
website built around an online version of a person's yearbook.
MyYearbook.com was launched and later merged with an ad-supported site
that allows users to post and complete online quizzes. By 2006, the site
had raised $4.1 million in venture capital funding and had 3 million
members worldwide. The site has attracted large advertisers like Disney
and ABC. Cooks reports annual sales of "seven figures."
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| Ashley Qualls |
Eight dollars started Qualls' journey that has led her to $70,000
per month in revenue. When MySpace was popular, people complimented
Qualls on her MySpace page designs. She posted the designs online for
people to purchase and that propelled her to a $70,000 per month revenue
with 7 million monthly visitors. She made so much money that she
dropped out of school to devote her time to her business. She was
offered $1.5 million for her business, but turned it down.
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| Fraser Doherty | |
At the age of 14, Doherty began making jams from his grandmother's
recipes. As the word got out, he began receiving more orders than he
had time to fill. He dropped out of school and rented a 200-person
factory a few days each month. In 2007, a high-end U.K. supermarket
approached Doherty about selling his jams leading to his products
gaining shelf space in 184 stores. By 2007, his company had $750,000 in sales. Since then, his company has continued to grow throughout Europe.
Nothing should be used as an excuse for not pursuing
your dreams of being an entrepreneur. From these inspiring young
business owners we can see that it doesn't matter how old or how young
you are, nor how big or how small your idea is. Entrepreneurship can be
achieved by many different demographics. All we have to do to get our
business ideas to blossom is find some support and put the work in. We
hope this slideshow has inspired you to keep believing in yourself and
in your business idea. Good venturing.
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