The youngest millionaires in the world sold eggs andthey made jam, drew and squeezed butter. ... This review presents examples from the life of students and schoolchildren who were not afraid to take the risk, and now they are on top of the world.
Like almost all young millionaires, simpleA Harvard student, a native of the average American family, had never thought about billions. Mark Zuckerberg was simply interested in programming and periodically launched into the Internet entertaining programs. One of his creations was Winamp - a simple and convenient media player that analyzes the user's music preferences.
В один прекрасный день Марк Цукерберг, сидя в his room in the university dormitory, launched a modest project - the social network Facebook. Today, his creation is the most popular "social sphere" in the world, and among other sites for various purposes takes the sixth line of the rating. Thanks to Facebook, one day a simple student woke up famous, and today his fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.
Showclix tickets online
Joshua Dziabyak once created his own websiteselling hosting - Mediacatch. Having unrolled the service, he managed to sell it for $ 1 million. At that time, the guy was only 18 years old. The money he received was enough for a new prestigious car and LCD-TV.
But the story of a millionaire is just beginning!Part of the proceeds Joshua invested in his new projects, among which was the ShowClix service. The project helps various organizations like concert halls to distribute tickets. For each purchase in the ShowClix system, the site charges a fee of a few cents. Thanks to these minimum fees, Joshua Dziabyak earns about $ 10 million each year.
Virtual albums from prom
How to become millionaires without anyprerequisites, firsthand knows Katherine Cook, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from the United States. Once she decided to transfer the usual school albums to the world of virtual reality. Having convinced her older brother to trust her idea, with his help Katerin launched her own project - an interactive version of the alumni album. It was in 2005, and at that time there was not a single such idea on the Internet.
К 2006 году брат и сестра смогли привлечь к to their business investors, a little later on the project appeared flash-games and online chat rooms. By 2008, the largest American advertisers, including Disney itself, became interested in the service. The number of users of the social network has not broken Facebook records, but Catherine does not need this. Her project became the third most popular in the United States, and then MyYearbook.com bought out the social network Quepasa. Now Cook's brother and sister are millionaires. Until the age of 25, they managed to make a fortune, which is estimated by a seven-digit number.
Superjam
14-year-old Fraser Doherty, an ordinary boy fromBritain, was very attached to his grandmother, often helped her in the kitchen and most of all loved her copyright jam. Once Fraser decided to treat his neighbors and friends with his favorite delicacy.
Скоро новость о вкусном варенье разошлась по district, and the boy began to receive orders for large volumes. At the age of 16, Fraser had already rented a small factory and re-equipped it for the production of jam and jam. By 19, the young man had earned his first million.
The extraordinary taste of goodies, a simple story of a guyand his love for his grandmother and her recipes did the trick. Today, Superjam jams and jams are the largest supplier of such products in the UK, firmly holding positions in the market.
Mydesktop
Гениальные идеи всегда лежат на ладони или born in the most unexpected places. All young millionaires can confirm this rule. Michael Furdyk, who once decided to launch his website directly from the parents' basement at their home in Canada, is no exception. 16-year-old Michael came up with the idea to publish tips on the work of computers, which he found in various chats on the web.
By 1999, his project MyDesktop brought more than $ 60 thousand per month. Later, Michael still sold the site to the corporation Internet.com.
Chicken farm in 3 years
Ryan Ross is the youngest millionaire in the world.He started his business at the age of 3, selling the eggs of domestic hens, which the boy's parents bred. He offered the neighbors to buy a dozen eggs at a price of $ 3, a day the boy rescued to $ 60.
Позже он стал брать заказы на стрижку и полив lawns, but since I couldn’t hold the hose or the lawn mower myself, I paid for the work to the older guys, giving them half of my earnings. So he began to earn from 5 to 100 dollars per hour, doing absolutely nothing.
Накопленные деньги Райан Росс решил – Of course, not without the participation of parents - to invest in real estate, acquiring several buildings in Canada and Colombia. Later in the list of its acquisitions were basketball and hockey grounds. Today, the boy’s fortune is estimated at $ 9,000,000, while the 8-year-old Ryan still does not have a mobile phone - mom and dad are not allowed.
Plant fuel
Daniel Gomez Inigues has developed a technologyallowing to receive fuel from a squeeze of plants. The guy did not have funds for production, so he acted like many young millionaires, he started looking for investors. The first client also became the first investor at the same time - the boy realized the project of the press for half the funds from the order and produced the initial batch of goods.
За год своего существования компания по fuel production, which the boy gave the name Solben, has attracted investments in the amount of about $ 1 million. Today, the company is thriving, and 20-year-old Daniel has only recently managed to go to college.
Miss O and Miss O and Friends
Juliet Brindack began her journey to success inage 10 years. It was then that the girl painted her Miss O, the heroine of future projects. Juliet was surprised to learn that Miss O was liked not only by herself, but also by her friends. Then she came up with the idea of making the heroine virtual by placing her in the center of an interactive community for girls on the Internet.
Today Miss O and Friends is one of the mostPopular projects for girls aged 8 and over. The site has many games for girls, profiles, chat for communication and, of course, Miss O. herself. The creator of the project barely managed to enter the university at the time of success. Work on the site and study have to be combined.
Beautiful profiles on MySpace
Ashley Kvols, a 14-year-old girl from America,was fond of drawing and design. During the formation of the era of social networks, she noticed that her friends would be interested in decorating personal profiles on MySpace. Ashley could help the girls in two ways, so she created several options for the design of the page and exhibited her work on her own site.
Soon, Yahoo service drew attention to the highAshley's website popularity level. The total number of visits to her MySpace wallpaper pages exceeded a million unique users! Moreover, most of them belonged to the category of “teenage girls”. From the point of view of most advertisers, this category is the most active on the Internet, so Whateverlife, as Ashley called it, quickly found its partners for cooperation.
Today is the annual income from the project of a young Americanexceeds $ 1 million dollars. At the same time, Ashley's initial investment was $ 8, which she borrowed from her mother. Here's how little girls become a millionaire without a penny of money in their pocket!
Online Selling Points
Jamie Murray Wells once got the recipe, bywhich he had to order and buy glasses. The young man was unpleasantly surprised by the high cost of the thing necessary for him - $ 300! Then he had to buy glasses made using special technology. Wells bought them at an affordable price, and he liked the quality of the optical device so much that the guy decided to organize the sale of such glasses via the Internet.
As a result, Jamie quits school and invests in histhe project is all means - $ 2,000. Its Glasses Direct website earns $ 2 million in the first year after launch, and then begins to actively collaborate with advertisers, attracting investments of up to $ 34 million. Impressive, right?
Mushroom seller
Once a 15-year-old teenager from the USA, Ian PurcayasthaI decided to import a delicious product - truffles. But the young man had to face some points that impede a successful business. In Arkansas, where Yang lived, the import of delicacies was controlled by local departments, so it was necessary to carry out complex work in order to deliver in accordance with federal laws.
Ian’s task was also complicated by the short termtruffle storage - only 7 days. Then a 15-year-old teenager, fond of picking mushrooms, decided to organize his own truffle nursery - the first in the United States. Today, the boy is rightly called a truffle tycoon. Its products are bought by the best restaurants in New York, including those marked with the Michelin star.
What is the reason for the success of Tartufi Unlimited?Experts argue that the reason lies in the age of Jan. Most of his peers think only about music, computer games and clubs. And Jan Purkayastha just sells mushrooms. At a price of $ 4 thousand per kilogram.
Favorite Songs Business
As practice shows, many youngmillionaires did not even plan to do business. Milan Tesovich began his business with entertainment. The teenager liked to collect lyrics of his favorite songs. Milan collected them all on one resource, which he created himself.
In 2004, his hobby gradually grew intobusiness. The Metrolyrics website has collected more than 2 million tracks, and Milan’s earnings on the sale of advertising sites are expressed in six-figure numbers. When the guy became rich, he was 21 years old.
Micro Blogging on Tumblr
Tumbrl microblogging platform todaypopular even among major politicians, Barack Obama himself has his own account on the project. The creator of the Tumbrl platform is David Karp, who at that time was only 19 years old. Before deciding to create his own project, David changed several study places, completed home schooling and several courses, and gained work experience.
In 2006, the young man decided to abandonregular office work and set to work on himself. His project Tumbrl became so famous that the number of unique visits in individual months exceeded 13 million users.
Creator of the Red Fox
This story is from the Great Geek series onwhich equals all ambitious programmers and IT specialists. Blake Aaron Ross began to engage in website programming as a boy. He created his first brainchild as a 10-year-old child.
And it was a full and worthy Internet resource.Then the 15-year-old was invited to Netscape, where he became friends with work colleague - Dave Havitt. So, combining study and work, a 19-year-old guy paired with Havitt created the second most popular Internet browser - Mozilla Firefox.
Today, Ross does not leave work on his brainchild. But the guy has a ton of other projects. At the same time, young talent manages to occupy the post of product director at the Zuckerberg company.
Hype machine
As you may have noticed, almost all of theabove the young millionaires of the world are residents of the USA or Canada. But on this corner of the Earth the light did not converge in a wedge. In our country, there are also lucky ones. Who are they - the young millionaires of Russia?
Surprisingly, a successful Russian guyorigin, which was on this list, created his brilliant creation thanks to ... laziness! At the age of 9, Anton Volodkin, together with his parents, changed his place of residence from Moscow to New York. By the age of 17, the young man began working at Brainlink. According to Anton himself, the only opportunity for emotional discharge for him at that time was music.
But looking for new and interesting tracks was for a guytoo tedious occupation, which also took a lot of time. And Anton Volodkin became the creator of Hype Machine - a program that automates the entire process of finding music. The technology found interesting tracks not only in popular blogs of musicians and labels themselves - many web users can. The guy was looking for something more original. And he got his way! The interest of users in the project grew, as they say, not by the day, but by the hour.
Today the site is visited by more than a million people per month. The recent merger with SoundCloud has opened up new perspectives for Hype Machine and Anton himself.
Random chat
Young millionaires of the world sooner or later tookhelp from investors or agreed to sell their own idea. An ordinary schoolboy from Moscow, the creator of the sensational ChatRoulette project, gave up all these opportunities.
Andrey Ternovsky invented and launched his websitein just three days. The place of work for him was his usual computer desk in the Moscow apartment of his parents. By the end of 2009, the 17-year-old Andrey showed the world his creation, and a real hunt began for the project and its creator. The guy was invited to Europe, they tried to organize meetings with him, and a real fight was launched for his site. As a result, Andrei refused even to Yuri Milner. At that time, ChatRoulette was valued at $ 50 million dollars. True, in his subsequent interviews, the guy said that he managed to regret the refusal.
How to catch luck by the tail
Probably, many would like their fate orthe fate of their children has developed in a similar way. This is quite natural: well, who does not want well-being and prosperity for themselves or their loved ones? How can I get on the Forbes list? The young millionaires, according to their own words, did not at all try to hit the fat jackpot: they started by optimizing what worked badly, or simply doing what they liked. Some searched for ideas, others realized other people's thoughts. But, according to Jack Ma, the creator and owner of AliBaba and the richest man in China, it is all about ambition. If you are not rich and you are already more than 35 years old, then you have lived a life in vain ...
