Alexandra McDaniel : Founder of Kid's Roar: A very amazing Kid

When she was just 9 years old Alexandra McDaniel became the founder and president of Kid’s Roar a company entirely run by kids. The reason Alexandra started the company was because she wanted a horse and her dad told her that if she really wanted one, she’d need to raise the money herself to get it. Kids Roar has five different clubs (Safari Club, Marine Club, Horse Club, Best Friends Club and the Dinosaur Club) with various products, which can be found on the site.

The Big Idea Episode: Daymond John Founder of Fubu

Born c. 1969, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Margot John (a flight attendant).

Career

Founded FUBU (For Us, by Us), apparel company, 1992--.

Life's Work

Daymond John's creative vision helped revolutionize the sportswear industry in the

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1990s. As founder, president and chief executive officer of FUBU--"For Us, By Us"--John created a distinctive line of jerseys, jeans, outerwear, and a host of other related gear and accessories with a decidedly urban style to them. FUBU's phenomenal success has made mainstream apparel companies realize the potential for fashionable sportswear that appeals not just to trendsetting urban youth, but to copycat mainstream teens as well.

The Big Idea Episode: Jordan Wirsz, Helping People Gain their Millions

The dream of flight gave wings to Jordan Wirsz’s dream of a better life. More often than not, you hear of young millionaires that are heiresses, trust-funders or children that come from privileged backgrounds with elite educational opportunities. What makes this story different is that Jordan Wirsz is none of these. In fact, he’s far from it.

The big Idea Episode: Ryan Allis: Co-founder of iContact

Ryan Allis is a technology and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, NC. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11. Today, Ryan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact, the leading global provider of email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Kevin Rose: Founder of Digg.com

It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill. This was the day Rose would test everything. Two years earlier, Rose had gambled on his idea to change newsgathering, letting the masses "dig up" the most interesting stories on the Web and vote them

Matt Mullenweg : Founder of Wordpress.com

As a high school student, Matt Mullenweg worked on open-source software projects in his bedroom. Seven years later, he still does most of his work from home. Mullenweg, 25, is the founder of Automattic, the company behind the open-source blogging tool WordPress and a handful of other software projects. WordPress.com powers 12 million blogs, including those of The New York Times, which invested in

Sean Belnick : Chairs anyone? : Founder of Bizchair.com

At 20 years old, Sean Belnicks business chair website brought in $38 Million Dollars! At 14 years old Sean Locked Himself in his bedroom and 3 days later, Bizchair.com was born! He started out with just a few office chairs and eventually one employee, he now sells over 25,000 products and sold chairs to Microsoft, Google and Abercrombie and Fitch.

Ravi Gehlot : Founder of One Office

He launched his first business in his bedroom at 15, with £100 borrowed from a friend. By the age of 17 he was earning more than his parents and at 18 he became the UK’s youngest self-made millionaire.

‘I’m very pleased,’ said Ravi, then 22, who had just bought himself a three-storey £500,000 penthouse in London Fields, near Dalston. Ravi’s first business venture was hiring a nightclub for a party.

He earned £3,000 and never looked back – despite getting regular detentions at school for making business calls on his mobile during lessons. “My economics teacher kept chucking me out,” he said. “I spent most of my time outside the classroom instead of inside it.”

He left school at 16 and headed straight for Ayia Napa, where he began promoting club nights before MTV talent spotted him and awarded him a contract to run its teenage parties.

And he has no regrets about cutting short his education. He said: ‘I left school at 16 but most people are like sheep – they go to university because their teachers advise them to, based on their own experience 30 years before.

‘But university doesn’t mean as much as it used to and huge numbers of people are dropping out now. What you need is practical experience in the workplace so we encourage people to do work experience while they are at school, then get a job.’

After returning to the UK, Ravi set up another firm, OneOffice, which offers internet office services to small and medium-sized companies.

It has built up 2,000 clients in less than a year and will open a New York office this summer. The business means that Ravi is now able to help other young entrepreneurs.

Ravi fervently believes that other young people can follow his lead.

“It’s not difficult to make a million pounds out of a business,” he said. “As long as you’re dedicated and persistent, it’s very achievable.”

Ravi takes a pragmatic view on the value of money. “It becomes meaningless,” he said. “It just becomes a by-product. Money always means much more to those who don’t have it than to those that do.”

Blake Ross : Founder of Mozilla

When Blake Ross was 15, he moved from Florida to California to take an internship with Netscape. This was a rather quixotic thing for a 15-year-old to do, because Netscape was on life support at the time—its Web browser was getting the stuffing beat out of it by Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Netscape had one thing going for it: it was open source. Most software is developed exactly the way you think it is: you pay a bunch of geeks in cubicles to write it. Open-source software works differently. You release a rough draft onto the Internet, and anybody can open the hood and go to work on it—streamline it, fix bugs, suggest features, pretty up the interface, whatever. The people who write open-source software "aren't necessarily professionals," Ross says. "It gives you a breadth of experience outside of just computer geeks. It also means the people are truly dedicated because there's no payday." Open source is as much a community, even a subculture, as it is an approach to creating software.

In 2002 Ross and some colleagues decided to start up a new version of Netscape, one that would chuck all the fancy features and go for simplicity, stability and speed. They called the new browser Firefox, and it was a monster hit. When Firefox 2.0 appeared this October, it clocked 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours. Web surfers are switching to Firefox at the rate of 7 million a month.

There's something both very American and very anticapitalist about the open-source approach. It's about including everyone in the process, democratically, but it's also about giving away the product and sharing your trade secrets with the world; the more people who have access to your intellectual property the better. "I'm not in this for the money. I truly love it," Ross says. "I could never see myself sitting in a cubicle." Right now Ross, a world-weary 21, is taking time off from Stanford to work on a new project called Parakey. Parakey is top secret for now, but it will be an open-source project too. So Ross will make sure you hear about it.

Chad Meredith Hurley : Co-founder of Youtube.com

Chad Meredith Hurley was born in 1976 and is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the world's largest video sharing site: Youtube.com

Place of birth: Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Gender: Male
Places lived: Pennsylvania

He co-founded the company Youtube in February 2005 with fellow Paypal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Chad was born in Birdsboro Pensylvania by Don and Joann Hurley, He's three siblings, an older sister (Heather) as well as a more youthful brother (Brent). Since childhood, Chad showed interest in the arts and became interested in computers electronic media in the work of high school.Chad graduated from Twin Valley High School, Elverson in 1995, received his bachelor's degree in Fine Art at Michigan University of Pennsylvania 1999.

When he was about to graduate from college, he heard of PayPal( Chad Hurley sent his resume and received a job interview. After flying to Los angeles, he was asked to design a logo to show his skills and created what was Paypal's logo for many years.

It was in the work of his days at PayPal that he met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim,They worked together for 3 years until auctioneers eBay bought Paypal in October 2002 for $1.54 billion. Hurley recieved a Bonus, left the company and worked as a design consultant in Silicon valley for several companies, though Steve Chen stayed on another three years to help with PayPal's launch in China, all of them remained friends from then.

On October 16, 2006, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. It was reported in the Wall Street Journal that Chad Hurley's share in the $1.65Billion sale of Youtube.com was $345.6M at Google's Feb. 7, 2007 closing stock cost of $470.01. He received 694,087 Google shares directly and another 41,232 shares in a trust. His other three co-founders, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, received 625,366 shares and 137,443 shares respectively valued at $326.2M and $64.6M.

The idea for YouTube sprang up from the experience they have when at a dinner party hosted by Chen in January 2005 in San Francisco. Steve Chen and Chad Hurley where trying to send videos of the night by email to Jawed Karim who did not attend the party and denied that it ever took place but the videos were  massive for the email programs. Posting videos online was as well as a headache from there they got the idea that other people might be having the same issue. So they thought of having a site with a software that would make uploading videos feasible.

They latter got to work and the effect is what all of us now know as YouTube.com ( 10th most popular site online  a year after its launch ) they made it easy for visitors to view clips without registration, People could post anything they like in a matter of minutes, they fundamentally created a community around video uploading. By may 2005 they uploaded the preview of the site YouTube and in December same year, it was officially launched.

At first they got in to financial issue of having to pay for more Bandwidth for the thousands of visitors to the site so that it won't crash, but they were later bailed out by there former Boss Roelof Botha the former PayPal Chief Financial Officer who put them through to Sequoia Capital who agreed to fund their Idea with a $3.5 million check. Latter followed by another $8 million in April 2006.

Their marketing was at its best without spending anything on commercial at the preliminary stage but by making the easy and inspiring for the visitors to tell a mate, email links video voting and allowing videos to be simply embedded in profiles of social network site and site linking.

They struggled to keep the site walking effectively  on the financial aspect since the site was free to make use of users do not must drop their email address, they resort to selling of commercial space and their first commercial was uploaded in January 2006, elementary text including an apology from Hurley and Chen explaining they were short on funds.

The first YouTubevideo uploaded was Me at the Zoo on April 23, 2005 which shows founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo (which can still be viewed on the site ). The site soon become one of the most Popular site online with Members being able to set up their channels on YouTube and can comment on videos. within a short period from startup they were getting tens of thousands videos upload a day, they seldom thought there would be such a immense acceptance. It goes on to show that when you can come up with an idea that solves a necessity and right marketing skills you have no were to go than the top when you have the
persistence to go on even when you get discouraged on your journey

Remember when the going get toughs the toughs get going.

That's among what makes them successfull entrepreneurs. By July 2006 the company announced they were recieving 100 million video views per day and over 65,000 new videos being uploaded everyday.It was a massive step for the Young entrepreneurs.

We seldom anticipated when they started this site they would have such a profound effect on popular culture or the political races, that   by unlocking this video solution and generating this global audience behind what they were doing, were  enabling so many more people to express their views, not only their talents, but to receive a message out there, and that's what  drives us.

YouTube has been awarded the Best Invention of the Year by Time Journal, the first Web-site to obtain the Entertainer of the Year by Entertainment Every week. Many of its most popular users have found success beyond YouTube. Both Chad and Steve have received several prestigious honors and acknowledgementsfrom the business and entertainment communities including: Business 2.0
50 Most Influential People, GQ's Man of the Year in 2006

Andrew Christopher Gower : Founder of Jagex Ltd

Andrew Christopher Gower was born in 3 December 1978. He is the most famous for British game developer and has also co-founded Jagex Ltd with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder at the same time. The outstanding efforts of his produced expected results and now every one knows his to have written MMORPG RuneScape with his brother Paul Gower along being the sole developer of the same discipline.

Gower possesses 38.35% shares of Jagex according to the company records. At the tender age he was accustomed to develop computer programs. The flip turned out to be continuous flame and he got himself engaged in freelance java programmer in 1997.

Gower, he developed Prallax Painter, Battle Zone and Destruction Imminetn on Atari ST commonly known as Cunning and Devious Games, from 1995 to 1996 that was published by Goodmans. His team members include Andrew, Paul, Peter Oliver and Ian Gower. Soon he started trading jagex and was deeply absorbed in creating modern, versatile and hightech java games from 1996 to 1999 which earned him a great deal of funds and a certain number of those games continuously sought appearance on the web portal “Games Domain”. The package of games contained various solo player games and 3D castle and an outstanding number of classy multiplayer games. The most famous games that are accessible at Jagex are Vertigo and Flea Circus which has been renovated for the web space “Fun Orb”.

When he was at University of Cambridge, in 1999, he created the world famous Runescape that provided outstanding acceleration to his fortune. The chief reason behinding finding Jagex was to create games easily. When he revised the edition with a rewritten version named as Runescape 2 that has finally secured name RuneScape II; whereas the parent version is specified as RuneScape Classic or RSC.

However, in summer 2008 RuneScape was provided extended features with redefined texture to modify it to RuneScape HD and to accomplish the mission rightfully Jagex piled up useful information for the development of RuneScape HD. Due to its best features and finest access to the gamers RuneScape is included in Guinness Book of World Record in 2008.

The Sunday Times supreme list that manifests top money makers and richest persons had announced Andrew and Paul Gower to be 654th richest men in the United Kingdom who possess £113 million and in 2009 they are considered to be 566th richest men to have wealth of an estimated £99 million. He is the man who could successfully transmit his thought and ideas into games and now he is enjoying life with a remarkable difference.

Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai : Founders of Foursquare.com

They founded Foursquare, which has been valued at $80 million.

Their blueprint for success: Foursquare allows users to alert their Facebook friends and Twitter followers where they are at any given time, encouraging everyone to check out cool places they've discovered. Selvadurai is a software developer and Crowley knows something about social media (he sold Dodgeball, a location-based social network, to Google in 2005). Foursquare, a combination of software and social networking, is based on a very human desire: to get out and see things and share experiences with people. Selvadurai created it simply because, as he told BusinessWeek, "I live in the East Village, which has so much rich history and so much to do, and I realized that I'd seen maybe 5 percent of it. I was looking for a way to get me and my friends to go out and do more things."

Farrah Gray : The 21st Century CEO

When Farrah Gray was 8, he used his lunchbox as a briefcase and printed up his own business cards, boldly declaring himself a "twenty-first century" CEO.At 10, he and his friends had formed a business club that raised $15,000 to finance a lemonade stand, an Internet comic book and a traveling mini-mart. By the age of 12, he had founded a venture capital firm that raised $1 million from private investors to help teen-agers start their own businesses.

Stacey Bendet : Founder of alice + olivia

She founded alice + olivia, a wildly successful women's clothing line, which brings in a reported $50 million a year.

Bendet started her business with University of Pennsylvania classmate Rebecca Matchett (alice + olivia is named after the founders' mothers), and the collection is now sold in more than 800 stores around the world.

Tom Anderson : Founder of Myspace.com

Thomas "Tom" Anderson (born November 8, 1970) is an American entrepreneur.He co-founded the social networking website MySpace in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe.Anderson was previously president of MySpace, and is now a strategic adviser for the company.

Because newly created MySpace accounts previously included Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the default picture of MySpace. In 2003, working for eUniverse under the purview of Brad Greenspan, he and a few other eUniverse employees set up the first pages of MySpace, and the site grew from there. It is currently one of the most popular social networking websites in the United States (currently listing in slot no. 43 of Alexa Top 500 Global Sites).

Before MySpace, Anderson got his start at Intermix (formerly eUniverse) where he worked on a series of profitable internet ventures.eUniverse made money running spyware and spam operations, as well as selling subscription skin medication, made famous by the ubiquitous "Better than Botox?" ads. Anderson also made money channeling click-throughs with his Asian porn website TeamAsian.com, which later became an issue with Rupert Murdoch after MySpace's acquisition.It should be noted as well that Anderson was a popular hacker using the identity Lord Flathead, in the early 1980s. It wasn't until 1985 after hacking into a Chase National Bank server that the heat grew to be a bit much for Lord Flathead and he was subsequently caught, however, no record of prosecution has ever been found.

Mark Zuckerberg: Founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, which this year will bring in anywhere from $710 million to $1 billion in revenue, according to various reports. Zuckerberg's own wealth is believed to be $4 billion -- at least on paper.
Zuckerberg started Facebook from his dorm room on February 4, 2004. The Harvard student didn't intend for his page to go beyond Harvard, but he soon recognized the appeal of being able to connect with college friends. He brought aboard his roommate Dustin Moskovitz and later classmates Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes, as they began expanding Facebook to other universities like Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia and Yale. Facebook took off, first with college kids then high school students, and in June 2006, many corporations were allowed to join. In September 2006, Facebook opened the floodgates to the general public. Today, the site claims more than 400 million active users worldwide.

Gurbaksh Chalal : Founder of gWallet

Ahhh. The anatomy of success. However as always it did not come Easy. Meet Gurbaksh Chalal an American entrepreneur, author, TV personality, motivational speaker, and self-made millionaire. By the age of 25, he founded two advertising companies worth $340 million, and more recently appeared on several TV shows and published a memoir.Voted America's Most Eligible Bachelor in 2009, Chahal is one of the world's youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. His latest venture, gWallet, is a virtual currency platform for social media, and has raised over $12.5 million in financing. On October 23, 2008, Chahal appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, when she described him as 'one of the youngest and also the wealthiest entrepreneurs on the planet Earth.'

Tyler Dikman : Founder of CoolTronics.com

TAMPA -- Tyler Dikman bought his first platinum Rolex two years ago. He paid $17,000 cash last year for his 1997 Infiniti J30. He has discussed the future of wireless networking with Bill Gates and had his picture taken with Michael Dell.

John Magennis :Founder of Internet Exposer Corp

NORWOOD--Marta Johnson arrived a few minutes early for her job interview in February at Internet Exposer Corp.

While she waited for the owner to come in, Johnson occupied herself by glancing at magazine articles about the company posted on the bulletin board. As soon as she noticed the owner's photograph, she did a double take. The caption described John Magennis as a 16-year-old.

"I had no idea he was 16," she said. "I just thought, `This is a joke.' I was going to leave before he got there."

The 33-year-old Johnson decided to stay, however, not wanting to offend the search firm that set up the meeting. After her interview, she gave the idea some thought and decided to accept Magennis' offer to work as a World Wide Web site designer.

James Murray Wells : Founder of Glasses Direct

James Murray Wells set up Glasses Direct while he was still at university and has grown it into a £4m-turnover “recession proof” online specs retailer. Now he’s hoping to rocket-fuel growth by hiring Kevin Cornils of Match.com fame.