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Cameron Johnson

Cameron Johnson started his career path at 9 years old when he made invitations for his parent’s holiday party. Only two years later he had made thousands of dollars selling cards from his business Cheers and Tears. When he was 12 he paid his younger sister 100$ for her 30 beanie babies and sold them on eBay for 10 times the amount he paid. After seeing that this investment worked, he started buying from the manufacture and earned over 50,000$ in profit in less than a year! All from reselling Beanie Babies! Using that money, he started an internet business that brought in 3,000$ a month in advertising. By the time he was only 15 years old, he had started and successfully ran 15 startups with total revenues of between 300,000 to 400,000 dollars a month! Not only that but he also became the youngest foreign kid to ever be appointed to a board of a company in Tokyo! In that very same year, he wrote a book called,” 15-year-old CEO” that became a bestseller in Japan! By 19 his assets were worth more than a million dollars!

Cameron is truly an inspiration because of his keen ability to see opportunities and seize them, something every entrepreneur must do. Unlike most, though, he had that ability at only 9 years old and was able to steadily grow that ability and talent to help him succeed. Several of his business stemmed from similar ideas that he just made better and improved.

Makin Bacon Baby!

After Selling Millions, Family-Run Makin Bacon Battles Amazon CounterfeitersOne morning in 1993 an 8-year-old girl named Abbey Fleck and her dad were cooking bacon for breakfast. as she saw her dad’s struggle with all the bacon fat juice and cleaning it up with paper toils, she thought of an idea. What if there was a way to cook the bacon hanging as a dish of some sort collects the fat? That’s when Abbey and her father began to design what would eventually become the Makin’ Bacon dish. It’s a square, inch-deep skillet made of microwave-safe plastic. It has 3 T-shaped supports rising up from its center. The bacon cooks while draped over the crossbars of the central supports and the fat drips down into the dish.
Abbey’s solution and invention were not only an easier and healthier way to cook the bacon but it was also an inexpensive way. The dish itself only cost 7$. Knowing they had an amazing product Abbey and her father founded the company, A. de F. Ltd., and began selling Makin Bacon the next year. (1994) Since then the product has gotten tons of promotion from “Good Housekeeping” and they even negotiated a deal with Amour for the Makin Bacons packaging in the same year of release. Abbey even made a personal appearance on “The Late Night Show with David Letterman” and on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”.
Abbey has gained a lot of entrepreneurial experience since then. She settled a patent infringement suit against a company in Pennsylvania that had begun to sell a similar product of hers. She acquired a patent for her “microwave cooking machine” in 1996. Still only 11 years old at this point.
Today the Abbey Fleck’s Makin Bacon is available on Amazon and at Walmart. She got the offer from Wallmart to distribute her product fairly soon after her release.

She is an inspiration to fathers and daughters out there that can work together to create something great. Even at that young age to she had a natural knack for business and entrepreneurship. Thanks to her bacon is better!

Henry Patterson

Young and Mighty: Henry Patterson shares tips on being a successful child entrepreneur in his new book.The youngest UK entrepreneur, Henry Patterson has quite the success story. When he was just 9 years old he wrote a children’s book titled The Adventures of Sherb and Pip. Through the overwhelming success of that book he started the children’s brand Not Before Tea. The brand made the book characters come to life through bags, wash bags, and toys. The brand continues to grow but he didn’t stop there.

At 12 Henry was a key note speaker at the prestigious Retail Week live event at the O2 in London. He shared the stage with both Google and Facebook showing just how successful he had become up to that point.  Even though he had dealt with a stammer since he was young he developed a love for public speaking and has since traveled the world visiting Berlin, London, Italy, Singapore and more.

At 14 he furthered his entrepreneurial path by creating the online teen platform Young & Mighty. This platform help and allows other young entrepreneurs to have their ideas become reality with just a few short practical courses. His goal is to share what he’s learned from being an entrepreneur at a young age with others so they too can accomplish great things.

He’s inspiring all of us with his continued effort to share his knowledge with his generation. At such a young age even. We should all look at him as an example of what an entrepreneur should look like.

Hart Main

Hart Main

Hart Main is a 14 year old boy who came up with the idea of manly scented candles. He came up with the idea when he was teasing his sister about the girly scented candles she was selling for a school fund raiser. he initially invested 100$ and his parents invested 200$ into the project. After working together they came up with several scents such as grandpas pipe, bacon, fresh cut grass and more. MansCans Candles are now sold in over 60 stores in the U.S. and have sold over 9,000 units so far.

Very few people are able to take an idea and turn it into a reality. Hart did just that. He came up with an ingenious idea and with the support from his family was able to see it through. He is truly an inspiration to me. If at 14 he can do all that, then who knows what amazing things he’ll do in the future.

Robert Nay: Kid Entrepreneur

Everyday millions of people play gaming apps on their phones, but have you ever thought about who came up with those game ideas? Or how long it might of took to code?

Robert Nay was 14 when he developed his gaming app, Bubble Ball. Bubble ball is a physical puzzle game app that has a total of 156 levels ranging from . It took him one extremely easy to almost impossible. The games use different objects available to the player to deliver the ball to its end location.

The app took Nays a month to write the 4,000 lines of code for the game to work. After researching mobile software programming in his local library, he started working on the app. Two weeks after the release it had already reached 2 million downloads.

Corona labs, the company that had made the software kit Nays used, chose Bubble Ball as it’s app of the week. sense then the app reached a whopping 16 million downloads and even had knocked angry birds off their pedestal of number one free app on Apple app store.

This simple story has a way of motivating those who have ideas but are afraid to try. The fact that he was not only curious enough to research and look into mobile software programming, but then also went ahead and just created the app is so impressive to me. As someone who often has big ideas but never is confident enough in them to act, this story really inspired me.