Top Young Entrepreneur Stories (Part 1) >>

by Nicholas Tart on September 3, 2010

“One thing I noticed was that a lot of people were skeptical I wrote the speech myself, citing some of the words/phrases I used. I write all my speeches myself and my vocabulary is a “side effect” of reading a lot. ” ~ Adora replying to comments on TED.com

Adora Svitak, Tiny Literary Giant

Adora is a 12-year-old who has published two books and transformed her writing success into speaking and teaching success. She has spoken at over 400 schools and presented at the annual TED conference. She has been featured on Good Morning America and on CNN.

“I’ve never sat on an idea. If I get something, I act on it. Business is all about taking the leap. Once you take the leap, then you can think about what’s going to happen next. The larger the vision, the larger the need to pave your path with skill and confidence. But, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. That first step is the most important thing."

Farrhad Acidwalla, Top Young Indian Entrepreneur 

Farrhad has launched Rockstah Media, a cutting-edge company devoted to web development, marketing, advertisement, and branding. It is just over a year old but it has clients and a full fledged team of developers, designers and market strategists spread across the globe.







“Life is never about playing it safe. Life is about playing it fun. That’s behind every entrepreneur. If you go and ask, “What makes you so passionate about your blog, your product, or your business?” It’s because they love changing it and they love how it all comes to form."

King Sidharth, The Outlaw Entrepreneur

King is a speaker, author, magazine publisher, rad dude, and he’s organizing a conference for teenagers called Createens. It will give young people an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, blogging, and more from world-wide experts. Find out why King considers himself to be an outlaw.

Ben Weissenstein, Major League Young Entrepreneur

Ben and his booming business have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and on the Dr. Phil Show. He has started The Entitled Group, a company that helps musical artists, and he’s franchising Grand Slam Garage Sales, a garage sale service.

"Everything started as nothing. We started with just the principles of wanting to be professional, keep records, and keep our customers and workers happy. We just figured it out as we went. When I started Grand Slam Garage Sales with my friend Matt, we went to Walmart and bought two red polo shirts for about eight dollars apiece [as uniforms]. We thought we looked professional, at least. The red polo shirts turned into to blue uniforms with Grand Slam Garage Sales logos.

We knew we had to keep records to an extent, so we started by opening a Word document and writing, “We took in x amount of dollars, we had x amount of expenses.” Eventually that turned into a nice excel spreadsheet, which turned into software that we had developed so we could put in [financial] information.

Our first website was all right, but it was nothing special at all. We had a friend do it. Then we had another web guy do it, who did a better job. Then we had another web guy do it who did an even better job. Basically, I started not knowing much and I just kept learning as I went along. That’s the biggest thing: always learn, change, and grow with your business."

Selected from: http://juniorbiz.com