Like many young girls, Vinusha followed her mother around and learned that her mom did a whole lot more than she thought. She wanted to do everything her mother did, and she learned to appreciate her mother so much. On her mother’s birthday, Vinusha decided she was going to make her a cake. She and a friend got together and watched a Youtube video to teach themselves how to make a cake. Unfortunately, her first cake wasn’t so good, but she still had a fun time making it.

According to her family, the taste was okay, but the consistency was completely wrong. Vinusha was sad and discouraged and declared that she would never bake a cake again. Almost all entrepreneurial ventures begin with failure – and a lot of it. Like many influential entrepreneurs that came before her, Vinusha began to bake again, and eventually she got good at her craft. She had passion for cakes and baked goods that made her want to keep trying. With the help of her parents, Vinusha started Four Seasons Pastry at just nine years old.

Vinusha’s company sells cupcakes that are meant to represent and be symbolic of the four different seasons. After she sold a few cupcakes, she really got into the idea of having her own business and her own brand. She decided that she wanted to create a product as well as a good. She began to sell a baking kit for children like her who wanted to learn more about baking. She took the pain of being confused by the YouTube video she tried watching before and turned it around! The product helps children bake cakes without using smartphones. The kit comes with ingredients, recipes, and a note about how the science of baking works. Along with this, she also landed an internship at a five-star hotel and café. She takes advice from her mentors who know much more about the pastry world than she does, and isn’t afraid to follow their advice and take a leap of faith.

Have you ever been looking for something in the store but can’t find whatever it is that you like? Moziah Bridges feels your pain! Even as a young child he was stylish – wanting to stand out in a crowd, not blend in. He loved to dress up and wear bow ties, but often found himself longing for patterns and styles the stores did not sell. Moziah is also a jazz dancer, which explains his creative side. One day, when he just couldn’t bear the thought of another boring bow tie, he asked his grandmother to teach him how to sew.

Moziah began hand-crafting bow ties for himself, using a sewing machine, and people loved them! People love hand-made items, especially when they are as unique as these bow ties. He started selling to friends and family, and when he realized he could make a real profit off of them, he started to sell on Etsy. He called his company “Mo’s Bows” and rightfully named himself the CEO. According to Forbes magazine, Moziah as raked in a cool $30,000 after only selling for three years. Although this number may seem lower than other businesses, Mo’s Bows is special because each bow is picked out and sewn by hand, so creating their product takes longer than the average company. After the business took off on Etsy, Moziah began selling in boutiques where the owners were friends of his. He sells his bowties in boutiques across a few states including Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Arkansas.

Just one of Mo’s Bows can retail for between twenty-five and fifty dollars. And all of this money he is making is going back to good causes. Moziah wasn’t just concerned with making money when he started selling. And he understands how a good impression and an upstanding image within the community can be beneficial. He created the Go Mo! Scholarship Bow Tie and all of the proceeds from it help send children to summer camps. He likes the idea of giving kids a place to go where they can’t get into as much trouble. Mo’s biggest piece of advice to those who want to be like him is to “figure out what you like to do and how to make money from it.” Because that’s exactly what he did with Mo’s Bows.

As we all know, many entrepreneurial ventures begin with pain in someone’s life. Whether it is in the life of the entrepreneur or someone close to them, this drives them to create or improve something that will take away or decrease the pain. For Lily Born, the pain was watching her grandfather try to live life with Parkinsons Disease. This is a disease that damages the nerves in the body, producing tremors that make it extremely difficult to use everyday objects. Things such as silverware and pencils require a hefty amount of dexterity, which is practically impossible for those suffering with Parkinsons Disease.

Something that Lily noticed was that her grandfather was having a particularly hard time picking up and using his cups. This meant he often spilled his beverages and Lily’s grandmother had to clean up the mess. Lily designed a new kind of cup – one with three legs to minimize the risk of spills. She calls the cups “Kangaroo Cups,” because Kangaroos use their tails as a third leg to help their balance. She spent a few years prototyping the cup, building with moldable plastic and clay until she discovered a design that she loved and didn’t tip over.

Lily has become very successful at the young age of 16. She has sold more than ten thousand Kangaroo Cups, but we know that the most important part of this process for her was seeing her product help her grandfather. It helped him in more ways than one! He is a loving grandfather who is so proud of his granddaughter for inventing a solid business, but it has also helped him feel more capable. Lily was named as Business Insider’s Top 11-year-old in Tech, and has presented her product in the White House Science Fair. She has told the world about her product in all of her many News appearances.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! This has been Ryan Hickman’s motto since he was three years old. For most three-year-olds, it’s hard enough to throw things away without help from your parents, but for Ryan, recycling is something he’s always loved to do! His love for recycling grew even more when he discovered that he could make money from doing it! Talk about loving what you do for a living! He took a big bag of recyclables from his house to the local recycling center, and they gave him five dollars for the things he brought. Because he was young, Ryan believed that with those five dollars, he had won the lottery. He got to make money for doing something he already loved, so it’s fair to say he certainly did hit the jackpot!

Not too long after the visit to the local recycling center, Ryan’s Recycling was born. He started going around to the houses in his neighborhood to collect other people’s recycling and bring it to the center. Ryan is now eleven years old and is the CEO of Ryan’s Recycling. He has company merchandise and his face is plastered on the side of a few vans he uses to transport loads! Obviously Ryan does not work alone, and his dad is the chauffeur behind the recycling celebrity. Ryan and his dad spend most of their weekends traveling around Orange County, California collecting recyclables. They’ve spent years building up a real client base. People trust that Ryan will actually take their items to a recycling plant and it will get reused instead of thrown into a trash facility.

Ryan’s business tugs on the heart strings of everyone around him. He shows people why it’s important to care about recycling by emphasizing that his business isn’t about the money, but it’s about the earth. At first he was too young to know that the earth can be damaged by trash, but over the years he grew to love the green movement and be a front line protector of the earth. Ryan’s Recycling has been around for not even a decade, and they have already recycled over 1.6 million plastic bottles and cans – and that’s just their local area. Ryan, like a good entrepreneur, has earned money and invested it straight into his future. He plans to go The University of California, Irvine so that he can remain local and keep his business running while furthering his education.

Along with his for-profit recycling company, Ryan also started “Project 3R” – a non-profit organization that takes donations to Ryan’s Recycling and uses them to fund community and beach clean ups, and to help make his community more aware of their effects on the environment.

Most businesses start with a dream. For some, it’s a dream to see their product help the world change the world and make a difference. For others, it’s to make millions of dollars and become famous in the process. For 13-year-old Hart Main, the dream leaned more towards the latter. Similar to many young boys, Hart was very active. He loved to keep his body moving and expel some of his energy physically. But when he started his small business, he was so much more than brawns.

Hart loved to compete in triathlon competitions and was frustrated at himself when he lost one back in 2010. He chalked the loss up to his relatively old bike model and wanted to buy a new one. His parents let him know he would have to pay for the bike himself – which wasn’t surprising because the bike was around $1,200. Main decided to make candles for men, since regular candles were “too girly.” He created manly scents and made the candles inside soup cans for a manly finish. Calling his new venture “ManCans,” he took to the market with his idea.

Hart’s plan was to make enough candles to pay for his new bike and then leave the business behind him. Luckily for him, the market had other ideas! The small company that started with a 13-year-old boy and a candle making kit in his mother’s kitchen turned into a booming company. After the business took off, Main became concerned with more than just money for his bike. The candles were being made from soup cans, and Hart knew that wasting the soup was wrong, so after a while he began to donate the soup to local food banks, keeping the cans for his product.

After a while, the company was picked up by Beaver Creek Candle Co., who offered to produce and manufacture the candles. Hart Main started as a young boy who was interested in earning money to buy himself a new bike and now he is a successful young businessman who’s company helps feed the hungry at food banks and soup kitchens.