Friday, March 10th, 2017 by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu
When you see a flier for donations for the blind, do you give a few banknotes and then forget about it? Or do dig deeper into their hardships and find a way to make their lives better on a longer term? Shubham Banerjee, a thirteen-year old Californian teen, chose the second option and ended up […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 by Raluca Besliu
Talia Leman wanted to help the victims of the destructive and deadly Hurricane Katrina. Determined to help as much as possible, the ten year old planned to raise $1 million, which for most would seem a ludicrously ambitious goal, especially for a child her age. Talia managed to rally a children-led movement that reported not […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 by Emily Dallas
For Mubarak Muyika, being an entrepreneur seemed natural. The young Kenyan first started taking business classes in high school. Orphaned at a young age, he lived in Bungoma County with adoptive parents, who owned a publishing and distribution company called Acrodile Publishers. While working for the company, Mubarak noticed it lacked a powerful website through […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 by Mihaela Bogdan
Sam Kodo is a 23-year-old young entrepreneur and changemaker from Lomé, Togo. He currently runs a technology company, LC-COM (Low cost-Computer)/ Infinite Loop, which produces low-cost personal computers for students. His biggest dream is to become the next Steve Jobs and create a new kind of Silicon Valley in Africa. The idea to create his company […]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 by Emily Dallas
Derek Pacque was just a junior in college when he formed a coat checking business, now called CoatChex in 2010. Interested in inventing from a young age, he decided to study entrepreneurship at Indiana University. In one of his classes, Derek was directed to make a list of “pain points” and potential solutions. One of […]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2015 by Raluca Besliu
Imagine a world where a tailored fit is the norm rather than a luxury, where companies and individuals create customized products, and size ‘me’ replaces ‘small, medium, and large.’ Through its cloud-based, 3D technology, Volumental is turning what seems like a dream world into reality. The company was started by Caroline Walerud, a 25-year-old Swedish-American, […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 by Emily Dallas
Isaac Oboth of Uganda was no stranger to misfortune when he became a young entrepreneur in producing videos. Orphaned by the age of seven, Isaac depended on his brother to be his sole provider until he lost his job when Isaac was just 16. Faced with this reality, Isaac, who is now 26, started selling a Ugandan […]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2014 by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu
What should teachers do when their students are e-mailing in class? One response would be to confiscate the device and give detention, after a thorough scolding. Or you could do what George Burgess’s geography teacher, Will Williams, did when he found George emailing a developer- help him write the content for the first app- a […]
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Friday, March 7th, 2014 by Leih Boyden
Recognized by Forbes as one of 2013 best young entrepreneurs on its list of 30 under, Cosmas Ochieng is an international leader in clean energy innovation. The 26-year-old Kenyan native is founder of Eco Fuels Kenya, an East African company which produces organic fertilizers and green biofuels from renewable indigenous sources. Since the 2000s, many […]
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
Yetunde Adeola Odugbesan-Omede is an extremely busy and involved 26-year-old woman.She is the Founder and Executive Director of Young Woman’s Guide, Inc., the founder and CEO of Yetunde Global Consulting and Creator of Putting Your Best Self Forward. She is Nigerian-American and her passions include leadership, women empowerment, human rights, politics, writing and public speaking. […]
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 by Jenna Bellassai
All entrepreneurs had to start somewhere, and young adults are paving the way. If you’re considering becoming an entrepreneur, it’s a good idea to first read the advice of other young entrepreneurs who were in your position once before. In this article, we synthesize the advice of more experienced entrepreneurs as well as words of […]
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Friday, January 10th, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
Tim Harris is the 27-year-old owner of Tim’s Place, a thriving and popular restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico that serves ‘breakfast, lunch and hugs’ and calls itself ‘the friendliest restaurant in the world.’ Born with Down syndrome, Tim started dreaming of opening up his own restaurant ever since he was 14. Tim may be the […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
In 2012, 12-year-old Jordan Casey from Waterford, Ireland, became the youngest iOS app developer in Europe and one of the youngest in the world, when his first game, Alien Ball Vs Humans, went on sale on the Apple App Store. The game, inspired by Space Invaders, went to the top of the Apple iTunes store in Ireland. […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Shea Gouldd, an 18-year-old, from Delray Beach, Florida, had an interest in cooking since before she can remember. According to her mother, as a toddler she preferred to watch cooking shows rather than cartoons. Her mother recalls that Shea always wanted to help make dinner. Her mom would let her snip green beans with scissors, […]
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Nineteen-year-old Ionut Budisteanu from Romania developed a model for a low-cost self-driving car that uses artificial intelligence. Ionut is not the first one to put out a prototype for fully autonomous vehicles, which Google Inc has been working to develop since 2010. Google’s model would be extremely expensive, costing around $75,000, due to its use of a […]
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
In 2008, the Ugandan government imposed a ban on the use of polythene plastic bags. Sixteen year-old Andrew Mupuya perceived this as a great market opportunity to start a business of environmentally friendly paper bags. He named his company Youth Entrepreneurial Link Investment (YELI). At that time, his parents had become unemployed and the young […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
At the age of 20, Eden Full is a successful and rising entrepreneur. While studying at Princeton University, Eden created the SunSaluter, a rotater that allows solar panels to track the sun’s movements without using electricity. Eden explains her invention “senses changes in temperature using biometallic strips. Biometallic strips are found in your thermostat and are […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Asya Gonzales is the young founder of Stinky Feet Gurlz, a company that designs, markets and sells 1940s-inspired t-shirts and apparel. The 16-year-old girl came up with this idea when her mother showed her one of her childhood doodles of a girl with big red lips and pin curls. Asya recounts that when her mother, alongside […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Tori Molnar is the 15 year-old founder of Utoria, LLC. a company “that assists and educates young women in becoming entrepreneurs and/or business women, partners with small businesses to give them brand exposure through the direct sales model, and allows young women a fun way to make money while building communities.” Tori revealed that her […]
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