Entrepreneurship is all about becoming the first to the market or becoming the best. Robert Genito is the creator of Wall of Coins. Bitcoin is new to the market in currency. It has become the most popular cryptocurrency to use. Cryptocurrency is a digital currency in which there is a finite amount. Wall of Coins has brought the buyer to the supplier and has made transactions possible without any fees. Bitcoin is looking to be very popular in the future, especially because it is not regulated by a centralized government and anyone in the world can use it to buy and sell a good or service. Wall of Coins has found a niche before many others see the worth in this market. Robert Genito has been able to make a living out of his hobby of buying and selling Bitcoin.

Josh Shipp is a 28 year old entrepreneur that grew up in multiple foster homes. He didn’t really know his parents that well and was frequently moving from home to home. He was a trouble maker at school and at home. He never really felt like he fit in. As an adult now, he has a passion for teaching parents on how to deal with their troubled kids. He has a video series on www.joshshipp.com about how to understand your teenagers emotions and how to better connect with them. He used his life experiences growing up to help many families around the world. This is a great example about how its not about the money, but the product and the customer. Josh has a passion for helping others through similar situations that he struggled with.

Philip Hartman became an entrepreneur at the young age of 8. Like Mr. Sweet said in class, he likes to “play”. He has the mindset of an inventor; always looking to build something bigger and better. At the age of 15, Philip built a system that could a windshield within 15 seconds. His second invention was a system that could fuse optical fibers in a much cheaper and more dependable way.

It just goes to show you that inventions don’t happen right away, but if you keep striving towards your goals anything can be achieved. It is cool to see Philip using his “play” time to start his own business.

At just 20 years old, Catherine Cook is an undergrad at Georgetown University and has founded her own company called myYearbook. It’s goal is to reconnect people from their past and also new people with icebreaker games and gets people back on the dating market. Its cool to see someone the same age as us in college to take the risk, seek investors, and go for her dreams. It brings a new light on the internet and how useful of a medium it can be to reach customers you never even dreamed of even when the product can be as simple as icebreaker games to reconnect people. Its a simple idea that was well executed.

In December 2010, a new mobile game app called Bubble Ball was launched on the Apple app store. In its first two weeks it received more than 1 million downloads, surpassing “Angry Birds” as the most downloaded free game from Apple. This game was built entirely by Robert Nay, a 14-year-old with no previous coding experience. Nay learned everything he needed to know through research at the public library, and produced 4,000 lines of code for his physics-based puzzle game in just one month. Three years later, Robert’s company, Nay Games, released 24 new levels for Bubble Ball.

I personally think it is amazing that all you need to start your own business is the information readily available in the library and the drive to implement your knowledge. Creating a successful app in which you can make a profit for the rest of your life takes learning a skill that most of the general public doesn’t have, and having a simple but creative mindset that peaks the interest of the general public. App stores serve as a great medium for entrepreneurs to launch their product in an app.

I’m sure many of you mowed your neighbors or family member’s lawns as a teenager, but did you start doing it at the age of 8? In 4th grade Emil Motycka was told by his teacher to start exploring career ideas for a paper. He read a lot about the landscaping industry and thought that charging $10 to mow a lawn would be a great business. He could make $20 an hour by cutting 2 lawns, which was a lot more than all his friends were making at 8 years old…. Which is more than I was making over the summer as a junior in college. At 13 he took out an $8,000 loan to buy a commercial lawn mower and by 16 he bought a truck. The rest was history. By the end of summer Emil was making 135,000 per summer. Emil then started purchasing other landscaping companies in order to expand his own. He now is 26 and his business is thriving.

I think this is a cool story and shows that you just have to find something you are passionate about and have the right mindset. Emil said, “The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.” Success is out there to be taken. You just have to be persistent and understand the basics of the market. Emil was able to provide a service and kept trying to optimize what he had in his business taking it one step at a time. That is a great business mindset to have.