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Kolatube Creator

Kolatube Creator

Alex Mangini is the owner and founder of kolatube. He’s a young entrepreneur who started off delivering services to clients before creating snazzy thesis skins for WordPress. Alex is a very talented and creative entrepreneur who combined his Photoshop and web designing skills to create themes that push the business over the edge.

Background

Before getting more serious into selling themes online, the first product he sold was a thesis premium skin used in blogussion.com (before he sold it) and it remarkably generated over $20,000 in sales. Then, he devoted all his time and efforts to building Kokalube.

Kolakube is a remodeled website that sells premium thesis skins for WordPress. It has provided services for savvy online marketers and bloggers like Neil Patel, Jeremy Schoemaker, Derek Halpern, Lewis Homes and many others. Many people use Alex’s creation everyday to simplify their online experience. He has made a breakthrough by making an easy-to-use system for people to apply skins to their pages. Alex’s online business is expanding more into a community for thesis users that makes nearly $120,000 a year.

Two 6-Figure Businesses

 

15 Years Old and a Millionaire

Adam Horwitz

Background

When Adam Horwitz was a 15-year-old high school sophomore growing up in the Pacific Palisades, a mean-spirited gossip blog caught fire with his classmates. Concerned parents soon stomped it out, but Adam’s newfound desire to find online success would prove much harder to extinguish.

The Beginning

He started Urban Stomp, a website where he posted music and the locations of parties in the area. The site made a profit by selling clothes through affiliate links. Adam proved too successful for his own good: Urban Stomp drove 800 people to one party. He had to shut it down after only a few weeks.

Today

Adam has learned from his mistakes and now teaches people age 15 and older how to make money online. He practices what he preaches: his courses, ‘Mobile Monopoly’ and ‘Cell Phone Treasure’, have each earned over $100,000 and he has another one in the works, called ‘Dude I Hate My Job’. To get his blood flowing, Adam enjoys driving his newly-purchased 2010 Audi A5 and playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on his Xbox 360.

For More on Adam’s Story, visit: http://juniorbiz.com/interview-adam-horwitz#sthash.xLTDc3iz.dpuf

20-year Old Architect

Marshall Haas

 

Background

Marshall Haas got his start selling Pokémon cards on the street corner with his friends. But by the time he was 17, Marshall had moved on to architecture. He got a job working for a high-end architect in the Dallas area and began taking classes at a local community college.

The Business

Marshall noticed that many architecture firms weren’t offering images, or renderings, to their clients. He decided to fill the void by starting his own company, AllRendered, LLC. Marshall recruited a team of 20 artists in the Philippines to create architectural images from floor plans and he began attracting as many as eight clients a month.

Where is he today?

Today, Marshall is 20 years old and still working to build AllRendered into a premier rendering service, while pursuing a degree in computer science. He is also in the process of developing a mobile web application called Podums, which will use game mechanics to encourage people to be productive. Whenever he finds the time, Marshall gets his thrills by riding his motorcycles.

– To see more about Marshall, visit: http://juniorbiz.com/marshall-haas-interview#sthash.A3M88K5I.dpuf

World’s Youngest Best-Selling Author

From Rags To Riches:

When Stanley Tang was an 11-year-old growing up in Hong Kong, his school banned snack foods. Instead of taking his empty stomach in stride, Stanley bought snacks at the local convenient store and sold them to his classmates for three times the price.

A few years later, he was introduced to Google Adsense and the ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ series of books by Robert Kiyosaki. They inspired him to get online with his business and to develop a book called ‘eMillions: Behind-The-Scenes Stories of 14 Successful Internet Millionaires’. When ‘eMillions’ was published in December of 2008, it rocketed straight to the top of the Amazon Best-Seller lists. At just 14 years old, Stanley was the world’s youngest best-selling author.

Since, he has been making six figures with his blogs, StanleyTang.com and TheUniversityKid.com, which he eventually sold to another young entrepreneur. Stanley also just graduated high school in May of 2010 and he will be attending Stanford University in the fall, where he plans to study computer science.

– See more at: http://juniorbiz.com/stanley-tang-interview#sthash.e7GZjimP.dpuf

Rockstah Entrepreneur Out of India

Rockstah Entrepreneur Out of India

Background

When Farrhad Acidwalla was in the eighth grade, he borrowed $10 from his parents to buy his first domain name. He began building a web community devoted to aviation and aero-modeling. The website became very successful and eventually Farrhad decided to move on, selling the site for much more than his initial $10 investment.

Successful Ventures

Many similar ventures followed. Each took his achievement to another level and the appreciations left him humble. This motivated him to offer his work under the name of his company. He soon would be presented with more options to grow his ideas and mold them into business ventures. Showing promiss at such a young age proves that Farrhad has what it takes to be a successful entrepreneuer.

Where is he today?

Since creating his first website, Farrhad has launched Rockstah Media, a cutting-edge company devoted to Web development, marketing, advertisement, and branding.  It is just over a year old but it has clients and a full fledged team of developers, designers and market strategists spread across the globe. As the CEO and founder, Farrhad is responsible for taking care of the clients and guiding the creative team to success.

At 16, Farrhad is planning to continue running Rockstah Media, while studying finance at India’s prestigious H.R. College of Commerce & Economics. Even though he is in college he still finds time to manage and run his company. At only 16 years old, this is an outstanding accomplishment.

Farrhad Acidwalla

Farrhad’s success has gained a lot of attention. JuniorBiz.com, a site that aknowledges young entrepreneuers and their ideas interviewed Farrhad about his ideas.

To see Farrhad’s interview: http://juniorbiz.com/farrhad-acidwalla-interview

 

 

 

myYearbook (meetme) Business Idea

Catherine Cook: myYearbook at $20 Million at 20

CatherineCook MeetMe_logo

GROWING UP:

When Catherine Cook was growing up, she would set up little libraries in her house with her brother and rent out books to their parents for a small charge. It is evident that she had a plan from when she was a child. When she became old enough to attend high school, Catherine and her brother officially launched “myYearbook.com” which is a social networking site that allows people to meet each other in a low-stress fashion. She received a $250,000 investment from her older brother Geoff to start their business.

TODAY:

Catherine is now 20 years old and is currently a junior at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Catherine’s site, myYearbook.com now has over 20 million members. Given the fact that Georgetown is a tough school adademically, it’s amazing that Catherine still finds time to manage a business. Between studying marketing, operations and information management, and psychology, Catherine still trains the staff at myYearbook’s HQ in Pennsylvania a few times a month. The site has changed its name to “MeetMe.”

THE BUSINESS:

There, eighty employees are working hard to make myYearbook the premier way to meet new people online through ice-breaking games and features. It’s working: myYearbook is ranked in the top 25 most trafficked websites in the United States according to comScore and it pulls in 20 million dollars in yearly revenue.

 

As co-founder, Catherine Cook keeps busy developing new features and leading myYearbook into the future of social networking. She’s also an active myYearbook user and every new member’s first friend.

– See more at: http://juniorbiz.com/catherine-cook-interview#sthash.4pd2UoDc.dpuf