What started out as a fun idea to help a few of his friends turned into a million dollar business for Scott Keyes. Scott would always here his friends complaining about how expensive flying was, and he decided that he wanted to help. He would search the web for the cheapest flights, and then email them to his friends. This was very popular among his friends and Scott realized that he could turn this into a business. Out of this popped Scott’s Cheap Flights. Scott’s Cheap Flights is a website that you can sign up for alerts for cheap flights. You can also sign up for a premium membership, which requires you to pay, but the users get even faster alerts. This system is what drives profits for Scott’s business. Scott shows traits of a true entrepreneur by taking a simple idea to help out his friends and turning it into a very successful business.

In 2014, Liam Berkley created a unique app called bark n borrow. As a resident in Los Angeles, he saw that most landlords are against their owners having pets. This app gives a simple fix to dog lovers that are experiencing this problem. Bark n Borrow allows for owners and pet sitters to easily communicate. For people that aren’t allowed to own a dog, this gives them an opportunity to still be with a dog without ownership. The app requires for users to create a profile of their dogs as well as themselves, so people can find exactly what they are looking for.

Liam’s app is very inspirational for all entrepreneurs. He saw a simple need that most do not think of, and he found a solution. This type of thinking is necessary to be a successful entrepreneur.

Caine Monroy is just 9 years old and he has already started his own business. Messing around one day in his father’s auto parts store, Caine designed his own arcade game out of a cardboard box. His arcade game quickly became the talk of the town as TV reporters and young kids flocked to the store to see the creative idea of this young kid. His pricing strategy has brought a lot of attention to his business as well. Its $1 to play the game four times and $2 to play the game 500 times. He also sells T-shirts that say Caine’s Arcade on them for $15. There are no numbers that indicate how much his actual business has made, but in donations alone he has raised over $212,000.

This story is very inspiring as Caine basically started his business out of nothing. It shows that people don’t need tons of money and lots of materials to make an impact on the rest of the world.

Sebastian Martinez is only 8 years old and he is already the CEO of his own company. At a young age Sebastian had a passion for collecting bright and colorful socks with cool designs on them. His mother saw his creativity and suggested that he design his own socks. With the help of his older brother, who is only two years older than him, Sebastian started designing socks. The result of this was the company Are You Kidding.

In its first year, the company made $15,000 selling its socks. At the time Sebastian was only 5 years old! It is remarkable that someone that young can create such a successful business right away. Sebastian did not stop here. In the next year sales were tripled and the company partnered with companies like the American Cancer Society and the Live Like Bella Foundation and helped to raise over $3,000 dollars for them.

The boys have continued to expand their brand making socks for adults and specific charities. The mission behind the brand is to give back to these foundations, so people know when they are buying from Are You Kidding, their money is also going to a good cause. This truly is an inspiring story, and these boys have a set a high standard for young entrepreneurs around them.

In 2010, Robert Nay, a 14 year old, invented a mobile game called “Bubble Ball” and launched it in the Apple app store. Nay’s app was downloaded over 1 million times in the first two weeks of its launch. Within that time it passed “Angry Birds” as the number one downloaded game in the app store. This may all seem pretty incredible, but the most inspiring thing was that previously Robert had no coding experience. Tired of playing the same games over and over again, Robert decided that he was just going to make his own game. He went to his local library and researched how to do coding for apps. Within just one month he was able to come up with 4,000 lines of coding to create his physics-based puzzle game.

As a young kid enjoying all the benefits of creating a successful app, you may think that Robert would have stopped here. This was not the case. Robert has continued to create new games off of his “Bubble Ball” game including “Bubble Ball Pro” and “Bubble Ball Curiosity”. Not only has he created games off of his first one, he has created an app that can help young students learn sight words and spelling.

The story is truly inspiring  that a kid as young as Robert was able to something this large without having any experience in his field. This shows that with all the technology we have, it is possible for anyone to set goals and work to achieve them. Robert shows his innovation skills in a field that is being changed everyday, and is very hard to crack into. This did not stop him from working hard to achieve his goal. I think myself and others can all take something from this young innovator in that if we have an interest in something, but don’t know much about it, it is still possible for us to make a difference.

At just the age of 13, Rachel Zietz started her own business called Gladiator Lacrosse. It is safe to assume this company is dealing with lacrosse and Rachel is a lacrosse player. When she just 13 years old she ran into a problem. The equipment that she was buying was always breaking and it was not very durable. She tried searching all over the place to find just the right equipment, but she had no success. Being in a family where her brother and parents were all entrepreneurs, she decided to get in on the action.

Rachel started Gladiator Lacrosse in 2012 and made over $200,000 in revenue, and the following year she went over $1,000,000. The business today is thriving even more than ever. The company truly prides itself on quality of their products and it promises in its mission statement that their equipment is 20 percent stronger than all of their competitors’ equipment. Just as good entrepreneurs do she is continuing develop new products to match peoples’ needs. The company is coming out with a Casey Powell special edition line of equipment that uses newer technology to make her products even more durable.

This is a very inspirational story for really anyone that is trying to develop their own products and test the field of entrepreneurship. Just like other entrepreneurs, Rachel saw a problem and decided that she wanted to do something to fix it. This is great example for others that no matter who you are, you can accomplish great things.