Young Entrepreneur’s
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Entrepreneur’s That Started Young
Today I am going to showcase a number of young and very bright individuals that became entrepreneur’s.
Edward Bok
The kids lemonade stand has become a bit of a cliché, but we should give credit to the first one known in history. In 1873, 10-year-old Edward Bok sold ice water in Brooklyn for a penny to people in horse-drawn carriages. When other boys started to copy his idea, he upped his product and price, selling lemonade for a few cents a glass. We bet he didnt know that nearly a century and a half later, kids everywhere would still be following his lead.
Thomas Edison
Even before he invented the light bulb, Thomas Edison was full of clever ideas. As a boy, he realized that fruits and vegetables were much cheaper in the nearby city of Detroit than his hometown, Port Huron, Michigan, so he took them back and sold them at marked-up prices. Then at age 12, Thomas started his own news publication, the Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold to railway passengers.
Alexandra McDaniel
When 8-year-old Alexandra begged her parents for a horse, her dad told her she could only have one if she earned the money to buy one for herself. While many kids would have given up at that point, Alexandra started a company called Kids Roar, which introduced kids to fun products that might interest them, like toys and stuffed animals. The companies in turn gave her a percentage of the sales that came from her site. Now a college graduate, Alexandra runs another company called Kid’s Horse Camp that connects kids with horse-related activities in their area. We wonder if she ever bought that horse.
Ben Lang
Currently only 18, Ben has already made a big splash in the international business world. Beyond the many successful companies he’s launched, Ben is also a blogger at Business Insider and a regular contributor to TechCrunch and Mashable.
Robert Nay
Robert is 16 now and still developing and heading up Nay Games.
The list could go on and on these young entrepreneur’s just amaze me and I can be certain there a lot more to come. I believe the future of our country is looking very good, but the young entrepreneur’s are not only from the United States, I feel that no matter were they are the younger generation is making the world a better place.
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