This 14-year-old student entrepreneur began her intrepid moneymaking journey whilst still in attendance at a secondary school. Her journey truly was set into motion when a friend from school first introduced her to the concept of homemade slime. After their monumental interaction, Maddie Rae learned that the process of creating homemade slime requires glue, baking soda, and saline solution (although glitter and dyes can also be added for aesthetic purposes). This inspired Rae to make loads of slime of her own. The only issue with creating batches of her own slime was finding the right glue to successfully complete the mixture. Maddie Rae recalls needlessly needing spend many long hours sitting in a car waiting to arrive at a store just to find glue that could properly produce slime at the right viscosity. She knew there needed to be a better way, and thus she tinkered, with the assistance of her family, to create the perfect slime glue. Shortly thereafter, she began selling her product online via her own website. Later, she found difficulty in keeping any amount of her glue on hand given the high demand of the glue not corresponding with her relatively cheap costs.

Along with being the owner of a highly profitable company, Maddie Rae is also an affluent internet personality and a world record holder at just 14 years of age. She currently has roughly 160,000 followers on Instagram, and her net worth is roughly $5 million dollars. As an impressive feat, she went on to set the record for world’s largest slime blob, weighing in at an impressive 13,820 lbs. Her words of wisdom for young, aspiring entrepreneurs, much like herself, are “[b]e creative, innovate and inspire!”

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At just 11 years of age, Hannah Grace began her life as a very sickly individual. After a rush to the ER, she sadly was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Despite this major setback, Hannah held her head high. With her family behind her, there was nothing this girl was incapable of.

Hannah’s entrepreneurial journey began when her family was en route to her favorite health and beauty store. During this drive, her father presenter her with a unique challenge that later would alter the course of her entire life. He bet that she could make the same products she bought in the store as well as sell them herself. Not one to step down from a challenge, Hannah gladly accepted. Soon, she had a recreation and development workshop set up for the production of quality bath bombs she could sell and distribute. Within a few weeks of going public, her bath bombs were being sold in a local gift shop. Later, her products were sold online and in retail outlets .

Since the creation of her company, she has donated over $5000 to various charities, and has committed to donate 20% of all web sales to JDRF, a nonprofit made up of 501 organization that fund type 1 diabetes research.

Hannah named her brand BeYOUtiful because she believes that the objective definition of beauty lies in being true to yourself and not buying in to what others tell you. She also believes it means taking on all challenges head on regardless of how difficult they seem at first.

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9-year-old Virginia native Jelani Jones is one of, if not, the youngest entrepreneurs alive today. It all started when her favorite farmers market employee recommended to for her to take a certain bath bomb making class. Upon being introduced to the concept of bath bombs, or a tightly compacted mixture of chemicals that slowly release scents and oils when exposed to moisture over time, Jelani asked her parents for the ingredients and instruments necessary for the procurement of bath bombs, and experimentation soon took place; with her parents’ permission and supervision of course. Upon reaching a reasonable, original, and all natural recipe after months of rigorous trial and error in developing her product, she finally began selling bath bombs to family, friends, and fellow church attendees. This effort eventually prompted Jelani to finally go public, bringing her line of products to both Etsy and the Facebook Marketplace. Her prolific line of 13 passionately unique and extremely colorful bath bombs sell for $4.50 each, and said products have raked in many five star reviews since her products initially went public.

For Jelani Jones, hard work and valiant efforts have certainly paid off for her in the long run. Since setting up her business, she has also introduced a line of moisturizers to her iconic line of bath bombs. She sells her products nationally, and thus the sky is the limit for this young entrepreneur. In the midst of it all, she still manages to be an all “A” student as well as a social individual.

Her advice to fellow young entrepreneurs is to believe in yourself and make yourself a great support system. Furthermore, she has been quoted stating  “Most kids are already creative. They not only need to hear that they can do anything, but parents need to help them be successful.”

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At just 14, Fraser Doherty, a Scotland citizen, managed to begin a lifelong career of entrepreneurial and philanthropic success. His career began with him selling cakes and other small edible items to members of his community while also donating the proceeds to Greenpeace. Later on, he reconfigured his grandmother’s jam recipe so that it would be made using 100% fruit. He named his company SuperJam and immediately went to market to see if it would be a successful business venture. After he began this entrepreneurial endeavor via selling his product via various means, he then realized it would be difficult to keep it on the shelves due to the high demand for organic and low sugar products in today’s food industry and marketplace. This did change, however, when, at 16, Doherty presented his idea to a company of the name Waitrose Limited. Not only did this decision place SuperJam on the map as well as the shelves of kitchens internationally, but it also allowed Doherty to go on to become one of, if not the, youngest supplier to a major supermarket ever.

Since then, SuperJam has gone on to sell millions of jars through thousands of supermarkets around the world while also continuing to donate to charity. Doherty has set up hundreds of community beekeeping projects as well as free tea parties for his fellow citizens of Scotland. Both ventures have allowed him to strengthen his community while also allowing people to interact with nature; something Doherty has been doing since he was 14.

For his many entrepreneurial and philanthropic efforts, Doherty has been commended by both the Prime Minister at Downing Street as well as His Royal Highness Prince Charles.  He was also awarded a medal for services to business by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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32-year-old Jeremy Lamri is a French entrepreneur as well as the founder of Monkey Tie, the first job board that focuses on the candidate’s personality and the employer’s corporate culture. To date, Monkey Tie has supported over 100,000 young people for the job market, and it currently has operations in  France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, UK and Ireland to name a few.

It all started when the Oxford and HEC Paris alumnus discovered a gap in the job board market. More specifically, none of his competitors were asking affinity-based questions to their clients before recommending them to various companies. In essence, not only does Monkey Tie identify people’s personalities, but it also pairs those personalities with the company that it is suited for. In the words of The Future of Earth Magazine, “Monkey Tie…matches a candidate to an employer or a job based on their mutual affinities, in very much the same way as a dating site.” This produces two main benefits; 1. more criteria can be implemented for screening new recruits on personality and motivations, and 2. knowledge of a workplace’s internal talent pool is improved. This can then enhance the planning process for internal mobility, inform learning and development decisions, and lead to new recruitment strategies for businesses.

The culmination of Lamri’s years of work and sacrifice have payed off. Currently, the Monkey Tie team has raised over €1 million ($1,172,634) in seed funding, and it is expected to receive a further € 2 million ($2,345,268) over the coming months. This, in turn, will form Monkey Tie into a leader in online professional development, and thus change the way thousands, if not, millions of people will live their lives. It is no wonder Monkey Tie is the 2nd hottest start up in France according to Challenges Magazine, as well as the French laureate for the European Business Awards in both 2014 and 2015.

For my sources, refer to this and this.