Rachel Zietz created Gladiator Lacrosse at 13 years old. While playing Lacrosse, she found her equipment to be too expensive and not durable. After attending the Young Entrepreneurs Academy in Boca Raton, Florida she pitched her idea to investors. She received $2,700 to develop her idea. Rachel used this money to create a line of  inexpensive and durable lacrosse gear. In her company’s first year, it had over $200,000 in sales! Two years later, it had generated over 1 million dollars in revenue! Rachel was recently honored as one of the finalists for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 Entrepreneur award.

In 2014, Alina Morse had an idea to create a sugar free lollipop that not only tastes good, but is good for you. With the help of her family and a lot of research, Alina launched Zollipops. These lollipops are good for the teeth, and are made with natural sweeteners to neutralize acidity in the mouth. This prevents the bacteria that causes tooth decay from growing. Last year Zollipops made $70,000 in sales and Alina was featured on the kids version of ‘Shark Tank.’ She is now working to get Zollipops in Dentist office’s and schools across the country.

EvanTube was created by a nine year old named Evan. He reviews toys and builds Lego sets, and has been doing so since he was only five years old. Evan has three different YouTube channels with over 2.8 million subscribers. He has totaled over 2 billion views and makes an estimated $1.3 million per year.

Catherine and David Cook were two siblings attending high school in New Jersey. One day they were looking through their school’s yearbook and they saw how useless the information in it was. At that moment, they decided to put the entire yearbook online! They immediately researched online and found developers based out of Mumbai. Catherine and David also convinced their older brother (who was attending Harvard and had already sold a company) to come on board, and they began working on MyYearbook.com. A month later, they launched a basic but functional prototype and marketed it to their fellow students. They had 400 signups in the first week. Over a year later, they had one million members and the site was growing extremely fast. Five years after that, they were acquired by a Spanish company for 100 million dollars!

Nick D’Aloisio was only 15 years old when he began working on his app Summly. The app works by summarizing news content into just a few of the most important sentences, allowing news stories to be read quickly. It auto-updates once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Within the first week of release, Apple featured the application in its ‘New and Noteworthy Apps’ section. This caught the attention of billionaire Li Ka-Shing, who provided Nick with $300,000 in venture capital funding. With this new funding, Nick was able to assemble a team and greatly improve Summly. Once the app gathered 250,000 users it caught the attention of Yahoo. Yahoo then acquired Summly for a reported $30 million US dollars.

At the age of 11, Ben Towers began his business career. He started as a web design freelancer, building sites for his family and friends. This eventually resulted in him building websites for local businesses. After receiving numerous requests for more of his work, Ben created Towers Design, a company he continues to grow. Ben believes his greatest struggle throughout his entrepreneurial journey has been collecting payments from his clients and opening a business bank account. Most of his clients have found Towers Design through word of mouth, and he believes this has allowed him to grow his company at a reasonable rate/keep up with demand. Towers Design is currently doing very well and is on pace to make six-figures by the end of the year. They have worked with over 500 businesses and have a 15 person staff! Ben says he was inspired to be an entrepreneur by his grandfather, who runs a campsite in Cumbria, England. In the future, Ben Towers plans to continue growing Towers Design in hopes of eventually becoming a market leader.