Lyrics

As a teenager, sixteen, in 2002 Teshovich Milan has launched a music site, where it simply for the fun of collecting the lyrics of their favorite artists. Two years later he turned it into a business. Today the project Metrolyrics.com includes 2 million songs, and the company, which earns revenue selling advertising was in 2007 – $ 1 million, when Milan was 21 years old. To date, the company employs 20 staff. Teshovich combines business with his studies at Simon Fraser University, located in British Columbia in Canada, where he received an MBA. “Education is not necessary to me for a career – he says – but for myself, for personal growth.”

Tickets online

Joshua Dzyabyak sold the hosting company for $ 1 million.

Dzyabyak Joshua in 2005, a goal from the age of eighteen had already sold his first hosting company Mediacatch. The deal amounted to $ 1 million, he immediately bought himself a «Mercedes» and a plasma TV, and the rest he invested in new projects. The number of new projects came Showclix – a web service that allows you to concert halls, cultural centers, colleges and other organizations to sell tickets directly online or by phone. In 2009, he attracted investments worth $ 1 million, and now the company’s capitalization is $ 2.75 million in revenues last year amounted to $ 9 million Showclix takes a commission of 7-15% from each sale .

Import truffles

Jan Purkayastha at age 15 selling 1 kg of truffles for $ 12,000

Already at the age of fifteen, Jan Purkayastha began to import truffles and sell them at a price of $ 12 000 for one kilogram, its clients are natural products stores and restaurants. Ian grew up in Houston, where as a child loved to pick mushrooms in the woods near the parental home. However, imported truffles are not so easy, his job controlling four federal agencies in the U.S., and besides, you always have time to time, as the truffles have a short shelf life (seven days). Ian opened the nursery in Arkansas truffles, among other things the first in the United States. At the moment it costs the company closer to around $ 1 million.

Road site

Jason Brian makes a car online $ 6 million per year

After high school, the summer of 2008, Jason Brian got a job in the marketing department of one successful company that is engaged in trade cars in Florida. He knew that great results in marketing, it can be achieved only on the Internet. “I found that I could double the result, buying advertising budget in half optimizing queries in search engines,” he recalls. Three years later, when he was 21, Brian has invested $ 10,000 of his savings into a site that helps visitors to search the car. Autocricket.com has become a profit by selling customer information to shops and manufacturers. After half a year after the launch of the site caught the attention of investors who subsequently invested in a $ 250 000. In 2009, the revenue the site was about $ 1.2 million, and in 2010 – is already $ 6 million

Cards and plush toys

Cameron Johnson, 15 received checks for $ 400 000

Cameron Johnson made his first $ 1 million, creating several projects. The first was, Cheers and Tears , which he launched in the age of nine. With the help of Photoshop, sitting at home in Virginia, he made invitation cards for their parents and soon received orders from his colleagues and friends. A few years later, having collected some money, Johnson began to buy wholesale plush toys, and then resold them on eBay, as well as the already popular website Cheers and Tears. On the resale of toys he had earned more than $ 50 000.

Even in the age of 13 he invented the Internet service My EZ Mai, which sends e-mails to this address, without disclosing the sender’s personal information. To do so, he specifically hired a programmer to implement his ideas into practice and two years later My EZ Mail brought a steady income from advertising at $ 3,000 a month.

In 1997, Johnson, along with two similar enterprising teenagers have created a program setting that users receive 20 cents per hour, and the browser displays the title blurb. The case was successful and they began working with ad networks DoubleClick, Advertising.com and L90, which had its own 30% of income. “I was 15 years old, I received the monthly checks for $ 300 000 – $ 400 000” – says Johnson.

Another company Cameron is a service CertificateSwap.com, which allowed people to sell unused gift certificates online. “On eBay, it has worked, but took away the auction up to 13% of the value card – says Johnson. – And our commission is only 7.5%. ” In 2004, a 19-year old Cameron Johnson sold his Internet service CertificateSwap.com for round six-figure sum.

Jam

Fraser Doherty in 2009 with jam sales generated $1.2 million

In 2002, Fraser Doherty, who lives in the small town of Edinburgh, in his 14 years in the kitchen of their parents get used to make jam. At 16 he was no longer interested in school, his only interest was the jam. Already by 2009 his company SuperJam reached a value of $ 1.2 million, however, formally employed by the company listed only Doherty did not prevent him from earning good money.

Social Network for the focus groups

At age 19, a social magnate Adam Hildreth amassed $ 3.7 million

In 1999, a 14-year-old Englishman Adam Hildreth has created a unique new social networking site, members of which Coca-Cola used in its focus groups, developing their marketing strategies. Adam also served 4 years as Managing Director Dubit Limited. When Hildreth was 19 years, BBC has recorded it in a list of some of the richest teens of Great Britain, whose fortune was estimated at £ 2 million, which amounted to approximately $ 3.7 million.

Site about computers

Michael Furdyk million earned in the sale of the company

Michael Furdyk in 1996, a 16-year-old in the basement of his parents’ house in a suburb of Toronto has launched an Internet project MyDesktop.com , which was full of advice on computers. The answers he sought out online or in chat rooms. In the same chat room, he met with his counterparts in Australia, Michael Heymenom. Shortly after theirs dating, Hayman moved to Toronto to help Michael build a business. They tightened the belt and found office space for barter and servers for the project. It was not long MyDesktop.com bring income of $ 60,000 per month, customers were advertising companies such as Microsoft. In 1999, Hayman, Furdyk and third partner sold the company’s online project Internet.com «more than $ 1 million.”

Press vegetable oil

Daniel Gomez Iñigo adolescence earned $ 150 thousand

The company owner Solben – twenty Daniel Gomez Iñiguez , whose company is engaged in the development and implementation of presses for squeezing oil from plants, which, when applied in the production of diesel fuel. Development of the first press, Daniel started back in school. At the first press Iñiguez sale earned $ 150 000. Mexican company Monterrey for the first year of existence Solben, put into it a little more than $ 1 million today the company employs 15 staff. And Daniel went to college.

Album online

Catherine and Dave Cook in 2011 to make millions advertising sales

In 2005, leafing through the pages of his school album in 15-year-old Catherine Cook and her 17-year old brother Dave the idea to create a free online version of the album on the Internet. Soon, they joined their social network with a mini-Zenhex.com. By 2006, the site of Catherine and the Virgin cookies – MyYearbook.com raised $ 4.1 million investment from two venture capital funds First Round Capital and US Venture Partners. After that, the site had attracted advertisers such as Disney, Neutrogena and ABC. The network began to develop further, and thanks to the concept of the project the number of participants has reached three million worldwide and annual sales of advertising from the site are equal to seven-digit numbers.

Sell T-shirts

Raymond Lee T-shirt sales earns $ 2 million a year

Raymond Lee took the practice as a schoolboy in China, the company engaged in web conferences. Contacts with many Chinese manufacturers have helped to make business at home, in California, Lee began to order T-shirts in China for its tennis team. Do not confine your friends and sales began to grow. After that, Lee has opened its $ 2200 web project to sell T-shirts Ooshirts.com. Two letters of «O», he explains the fact that in Google, Yahoo also has two «O». At the age of 19 Lee gave up his studies at the University of California, to work for their own welfare. At the moment he is working 3 employees. According to Lee, sales in 2010 amounted to $ 600 000 to $ 900 000. Today its 20 years, and he expected to sell T-shirts this year should grow to $ 2 million

Selling points online

Jamie Murray Wells - the founder of Glasses Direct investments in $ 34 million

Jamie Murray Wells as a 21-year-old university student in 2004 tried to buy a pair of glasses with a prescription of a physician. Stunned by the price of glasses at $ 300 at Murray instantly had the idea of new business. Wells dropped out of school and let your student loan at $ 2,000 per case, which then turned into a successful online retailer Glasses Direct , whose office is based in London. During the first year the company showed revenues of $ 2 million by 2010 revenue Glasses Direct was $ 5 million, and the number of employees – 70 people. Over the entire period of its existence the company has attracted more than $ 34 million investment.

Design for the pages of MySpace

Ashley Kuols owner of the site valued at $ 1.5 million

How to make a design for MySpace pages can be found in fourteen native of Detroit Ashley Kuols. In March 2006, Kuols, which owns an Internet project called Whateverlife.com, got an offer to sell the project for $ 1.5 million, but later rejected it.