On a daily basis , i get messages from wannabe entrepreneurs who want to leverage on the internet to start their business. So I have gathered 20 Young Internet Entrepreneurs to serve as inspiration for wannabe internet entrepreneurs.
These internet entrepreneurs are a “Proof that Internet Success Has No Age Limit”
1. Catherine Cook |
 MyYearBook – www.MyYearBook.com
Why Catherine Matters:Catherine Cook of MyYearBook.com managed to get 5 Million Members on Myyearbook.com. Talk to Catherine Cook for any length of time and you get the distinct feeling you don’t need to remember this girl’s name because you’ll be hearing it often in the years to come. |
2. Ashley Qualls |
 WhatEverLife – www.WhatEverLife.com
Why Ashley Qualls Matters:Ashley Qualls who is already a multi-millionaire, and has taken the young entrepreneurs world by storm.Aged just 14, Ashley created WhatEverLife.com, a Myspace layouts site aimed at the female demographic, the site now gets over 250,000 visitors every single day, which is more than teen magazines such as Teen Vogue, Seventeen & Cosmogirl… combined.Ashley doesn’t charge users to use the site, instead, she strategically places ads on the site, and around 60% of her monthly income comes from Google Adsense. |
3. Paul Bourqe |
 UberAffiliate – www.UberAffiliate.com
Why Paul Bourqe:When I mentioned to Paul that I was doing this post he let me know how many leads he had produced since starting Affiliate Marketing just over a year ago. He has manged to total over 544,120 Leads and at 19 years old – no wonder he has managed to total over $500,000 in one month. |
4. David Wilkinson |
 Affiliate Defined – www.AffiliateDefined.com
Why David Matters:From Video Game Nerd to Internet Entrepreneur aged 14, David Wilkinson Super Affiliate reveals the secrets of his online success. As you read this interview you will be tempted to think ? is this guy REAL? Especially when you read the maturity of reply and the WISDOM of David. |
5. Carl Ocab |
 Carl Ocab – www.CarlOcab.com
Why Carl Matters:Carl first started his website about making money online as a young entrepreneur at the age of 13. Now 15 he makes several thousands of dollars every month from affiliate sales and private ad deals. |
6. Josh Buckley |
 Menewsha – www.Menewsha.comWhy Josh Matters:Josh Buckley achieved Financial Freedom at the young age of 15! This year he has earned $xxx,xxx and can now afford to take his family on a two week cruise around the Mediterranean, any gadgets he would ever want and could still afford a small house. Joshua even won the Best Idea Award here on Retire at 21, voted as the best idea for a website out of several 100 contestants. |
7. Matt Wegrzyn |
 Bodis – www.Bodis.com
Why Matt Matters:A very young and very successful domainer. If you ever wondered how to make money buying and selling domains then this interview with Matt will inspire. Real step by step advice on making money buying and selling domains |
8. Harrison Gevirtz |
 CPA Share – www.CPAShare.com
Why Harrison Matters:Harrison is old 16 years old who has been earning income online for the last 3 years. Much of his online focus has been on affiliate marketing, so he recently launched his own affiliate network at LeaderClicks.com. |
9. Stanley Tang |
 EmillionsBook – www.emillionsblog.com
Why Stanley Matters:Stanley is just 16 and is just publishing his own book called eMillions where he interviews some of the internets biggest success’s. Stanley will be launching his book in December and it is quite possible that he will make over $100,000 over night! |
10. Donny Ouyang |
 Battle Forums – www.battleforums.com
Why Donny Matters:Donny Ouyang, a 16 year old CEO who reveals how he is earning over $6,500 a month! He talks about how he earns 3 times as much as the average adult, got a $25,000 loan from the bank and the future for his business! |
11. Long Zheng |
 I Started Something – www.Istartedsomething.com
Why Long Matters:Long Zheng is just 20 years old and runs one of the largest blogs for Microsoft enthusiasts. Long is unlike most bloggers, he claims to never make mystakes, always like to break stories first and expects no one else to blog apart from himself. |
12. Andrew Galasetti |
 Lyved – www.lyved.com
Why Andrew Matters:Andrew is 20 years old and prior to launching Lyved has always been an entrepreneur. He has launched several online ventures including a search engine and has also launched one off line venture; a bottled water company. |
13. Andrew Sutherland |
 Quizlet – www.Quizlet.com
Why Andrew Matters:Andrew Launched a quiz website to help make learning vocabulary not a chore. Andrew started Quizlet in October 2005, back when he was a mere 15-year-old and has had over 300,000 people register to play and over 35,000,000 games played! |
14. Chloe Spencer |
 Neopets Fanatic – www.neopetsfanatic.com
Why Chloe Matters: Chloe is a web-savvy teenager who took her hobby to another level by monetizing from it. She launched a fan site for the game Neopets back in 2006 and has earn’t thousands of dollars a month since then. |
15. Hansup Yoon |
 Zune Boards – www.zuneboards.com
Why Hansup Matters:This past month 15 year old Hansup Yoon, previous owner of Zune Boards, sold it for approximately $62,000 to other investors. It’s pretty amazing to see someone at such a young age making money via internet economics, but I suppose anything is possible these days. |
16. Juliette Brindak |
 Miss O & Friends – www.missoandfriends.com
Why Juliette Matters:It all started when Juliette was 10, she drew people that she called cool girls. She then decided to create a website for her sketches which led to Miss O & Friends which has been valued at $15 million! |
17. Gareth Hodson |
 HostedFx – www.HostedFX.com
Why Gareth Matters:When I first started creating websites I always looked upto Gareth and would check out what he was doing and try to base my websites on it. Gareth has now sold of some of his websites but still has two really successful websites, HostedFx and PageHole. Gareth host’s over 650 websites and has sold several thousand links on Pagehole, all while attending collage! |
18. Joel Drapper |
 JoelDrapper – www.JoelDrapper.com
Why Joel Matters:He was 13 when he first started designing websites and 15 when he launched his company. He now runs his own successful blog about SEO and Link Building – Some solid advice from such a young entrepreneur! |
19. Liam Goodwin |
 Filmonic – www.Filmonic.comWhy Liam Matters:Filmonic.com is a UK based movie blog that covers a wide range of movies (although they do have a strict no ‘chick flick’ or ‘rom com’ policy). The site was started back in November 2007 and has been updated on a regular basis ever since, which apparently people like as 150,000 people visited the site last month. |
20. Thilak Raj Rao |
 Tech Buzz – www.tech-buzz.net
Why Thilak Matters:Thilak Raj Rao is a 18 year old collage drop out earning $1000’s every month from his tech blog. Thilak has been online with his website for 2 years now but was a internet addict folloding the top technology websites on the net. |
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This was first published on restire@21