These are the top ten teenagers had talents,skills and hobbies and turned them into multi-million dollar ideas some of them took risks and were shot down but they kept climbing and got back up. I believe that there is nothing you can do in the business world as a kid or teenager that will hurt you for the rest of your life.
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6. Cameron Johnson
At the age of nine Cameron's parents told him to make invitation cards for a holiday party, his neighbors after seeing his cards started paying him to make for them, at the age of 11 he banked thousands of dollars in revenue for 'cheers and tears' his greeting card company. Not satisfied he took the money made from his card company and used it to form his online business SurfingPrizes.com a pay per ad service which paid of big to the tune of $300-$400k per month, before he graduated from high school his net worth was estimated at 1 million dollars.
current net worth - 3.2 million
5. Julieth Brindak
Juliette made her millions after launching the website Miss O and Friends when she was still only 10 years old. The site, which targets mostly teenage girls, is filled with celebrity gossip, games, quizzes and lots of feature articles. She has also launched a line of Miss O and friends books.
Juliette Brindak is currently the CEO of her site and book line and has a networth of 15 Millions Dollars.
4. David and Catherine Cook
At only fifteen and seventeen years respectively, Catherine and David Cook came up with a social networking site,Impressed by the idea, their brother Geoff invested $250,000 in start-up money to his younger siblings, who then launched the site MyYearbook.com. Pitching it as the “Myspace for high school,” they succeeded in getting an estimated 950,000 members to join within the first year alone, My Yearbook in 2005. The site has over 5 million users and has survived the Facebook domination.
My Yearbook has a net worth of over 20 million dollars whereas this brother and sister duo have a combined net worth of 10 million dollars.
3. Sean Belnick
At the young age of 14 Sean started selling pokemon cards to get himself familiar with the process of selling things online. Before long, he’d switched to selling office furniture on his new site, Bizchair.com, which ended up earning him an estimated $24 million by the age of 20.In 2004, he moved into his first warehouse and by 2009, he had more than 702,000 square feet of warehouse space from the initial 40,00 square feet. In 2010, bizchair had sales of more than 58 million dollars..Sean Belnick’s net worth is reported to be 42 million dollars
2. Farrah Gray
Farrah Gray was raised on Chicago's south side, where He began his entrepreneurial career at the age of six selling homemade lotion and hand-painted rocks door-to-door. At the age of 13 he founded Farr-Out Food which in a period of one year had received food orders of over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14.
Farrah Gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth 20 million dollars.
1. Nick D' Alosio
Nick is a self-taught programmer that started out his education on the subject with a copy of C for Dummies and How-To videos on the internet. Once he became proficient with programming, Nick launched his first app when he was only 12 years old, and from there developed a new app every time that school would let out for summer. Eventually he developed an app called Trimit when he was only 15, which would condense lengthy articles into short summaries ranging from 1000 to 140 characters. A Hong Kong billionaire saw the potential and gave Nick $300,000 in venture capital to perfect the app. This re-working would go on to be called Summly, an app that Yahoo! paid $30 million for. In addition, Nick was also given a position in the company.
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