Archive for the 'Business' Category
In life, you may have forgiving friends and relatives, but entrepreneurship is rarely forgiving. Eventually, everything shows up in the soup. If people don’t like the soup, employees stop working for you, and customers stop doing business with you. And that is why businesses fail.
Have a nutty business idea and need some inspiration to pull it off? We went looking for small companies that generate at 
least $1 million in annual revenue in unexpected ways. Look hard enough and they are legion.
……Here are a few highlights from our search for million-dollar businesses you’ve never heard of:
Nick Tart and his business partner are only 22, but they’ve already become experts in Generation-Y entrepreneurship.
After interviewing 25 self-made 6-figure+ teenage entrepreneurs….they found is that all the entrepreneurs shared a lot of similar traits.
These kids were lemonade stand sellers on steroids, hustling classmates in elementary school and staying in on weekends to work on their businesses.
Here is what separated these successful teens from their other, ordinary classmates.
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Teenage Entrepreneurs
by Geoffrey A. Flower
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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The Valley is filled with teen-entrepreneur legends: Gurbaksh Chahal started online ad company Click Agents in San Jose when he was 16, and sold it for $40 million two years later. He then founded ad network BlueLithium, which he sold for $300 million when he was 25.
