Hometown Annapolis:
Teen Opens Successful Shaved Ice Business
“Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the “Sno Shak.” At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls.
For Katie, the business is a way to earn money for college. It might also turn out to be an […]

KERA:
“TCU student Erick vant’ Westeinde is an expert on antique luxury cars, having fallen for them at age 12, when he started collecting and trading pricey, miniature reproductions of Porsches and Mercedes.
Vant’ Westeinde sold some of his miniatures for double what he paid, then started souping up bicycles. A few years ago, he moved up […]

Entrepreneur: 
“At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided “a huge beanbag thing” might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet wide, and everyone […]

HappyNews.com:

Jason O’Neill, creator and founder of Pencil Bugs, is the youngest student to receive the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007.
Young Entrepreneurs of America (YEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and motivating young entrepreneurs. Since the program began over a decade ago, high school students across the country have been competing for this […]

MiamiHerald.com:
It didn’t take David Lopez long to figure out the last thing he wanted was to be just another cog in a corporate wheel.
During his freshman year at the University of Central Florida while completing an internship at a Fortune 500 business, Lopez, now 26, was marched into the company cafeteria with his co-workers and […]

PressBanner.com:
Jerry Toste of Scotts Valley is only 21 and seems to have a perpetual smile on his face. He should — his low-tech startup, Cheap Hauling, is on everyone’s lips: Those trucks are everywhere.
Toste is grossing $800,000 per year after 1½ years in business, not bad for a guy who decided that “college and I […]

Weekend.entrepreneur.com:
Like many restless college roommates, Jamee Kunichika and Sherilyn Luke wanted a business to call their own. Instead of just dreaming about it, they took action.
Three years later, having endured extreme highs and lows, they are enjoying the sweet smell of success. Together they have attained their dreams with POOF, a liquid toilet odor eliminator.
After […]

EastValleyTribune.com:
Kristen Senseman learned to love wine from her parents while growing up in Scottsdale, although the 24-year-old has only been old enough to taste it for a few years. Now she and seven of her friends — all under 30 — have their own label, Hope Wine, a brand with a cause.
Three of them, in […]

ThisIsMoney.co.uk:
Alex Tew came up with the idea for the ‘Million Dollar Homepage’, a website that sold advertising space on the internet, in 2005 while brainstorming ideas on how to make money to pay for his university career. […]
[Alex:] “I launched the Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 and six months before I was working at […]

SMH.com.au:
I don’t get golf. But obviously a lot of people do. And that’s great for small business entrepreneur Brad Lindenberg who has harnessed people’s love with the sport into a thriving business. Three years ago, Lindenberg had the foresight to purchase www.golfclubs.com.au for $4000. It was then owned by a photocopier repairman.
He has now parlayed […]

NYSun.com:
David Karp, the 21-year-old brains behind Tumblr, a site that allows users to create Web logs in just 10 seconds, is a fresh face of the rising wave of New York dotcom entrepreneurs. […]Mr. Karp began his career as a technology guru at age 14, when he spent a summer working for Fred Seibert, a […]

EMS.gmnews.com:
With his new Web site ProHaloLeague.com and organized LAN (local area network) tournaments, Ryan Gellis, 17, hopes to move gaming from leisure to outright competition.
“The kids can play in teams with each other and can play against each other from all over the country in the comfort of their own home,” said Gellis, a freshman […]

NYSun.com:
Surveying the trash left behind after a party one night, an environmentally conscious student saw a unique business opportunity: offering a biodegradable alternative to the disposable dishes on the market.Michael Dwork, now 29, used his vacations from Columbia Business School to visit Thailand, Laos, and Peru as part of a search for the right material […]

Business.timesonline.co.uk:
At the age of 14 most teenage boys are likely to be found engrossed in computer games or playing sport in their spare time. But at 14 Fraser Doherty was busy making jam, after his grandmother taught him a recipe that had been handed down through generations of his family. […]
Doherty is one of a […]

theage.com.au:
When you get started early in entrepreneurship, you can make your mistakes while you’re still young. You are also more likely to adapt to new technologies and have fewer barriers or preconceived ideas on how things should be done. In particular, if you’re a Gen-Y entrepreneur who manages to combine the freshness of the younger […]

Follow the link to see BusinessWeek’s selection of 2007 Finalists for the Best Young Entrepreneurs!
BusinessWeek.com: 
This summer, BusinessWeek set out on its third annual search to discover the most promising young entrepreneurs in the U.S. As in previous years, we asked readers to nominate candidates they admired for their business acumen and received an impressive mix. After […]

VenturaCountyStar.com:
Like a scene out of a reality show or a Disney movie, Southgate, Mich., teenager Ashley Qualls’ moment has arrived.
The 17-year-old entrepreneur, designer and self-professed computer geek was in New York City recently, pitching her wildly successful Web site, Whateverlife.com, to ad-buying agencies for the country’s biggest companies. And she made an appearance on “The […]

OCRegister.com:
It was after her fourth operation in June 2006 at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County that Sabrina Saenz decided she wanted to help other kids feel better during their hospital stay.
Born with a rare heart defect, Sabrina, 9, is familiar with the hospital and its not-so-fun atmosphere. She decided to turn her favorite hobby […]

Northern News Service Online:
When it comes to running, skiing, swimming, cycling, kayaking and climbing, Scott Smith means business - and he’s got the hardware to prove it.
Smith, the mastermind behind Northern Canadian Adventure Racing, was expected to be presented with the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award for the Northwest Territories at a […]

TigardTimes:
“A popular figure at the Tigard Area Farmers’ Market (Oregon) this summer has been Katy Douglas, 11, who sells sunflowers that she raises herself.  The sixth-grader in Southwest Portland and has been helping out her parents, Cathy and Ken, in their booth for the past three years.
The family, which owns 7½ acres and plants a garden on three-quarters of […]

TBN Weekly: 
“Most 7-year-olds would be happy to get a new toy. But Julianna Lazzari is getting a whole new toy store.
The Palm Harbor second-grader with her hair in pigtails is the owner and president of 9650, LLC, a corporation with a dozen staffers, $250,000 in annual sales and a successful toy store in the Westchase […]

MarinIJ:
“Julian Prolman grew up in Marin (California) believing he could make a difference in the world. Now, he’s doing it.
Prolman, 19, is the founder of a business called Ministry of Tomorrow, an organization aimed at promoting the environment and improving conditions for people around the world.
Prolman, who graduated from High School in 2006, spent the summer […]

Post Chronicle:  
“Irish upstart and entrepreneur Aodhan Cullen built his web analytic tool, StatCounter, at the tender age of 16 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Cullen was looking for a way to help his web page clients as way to see the number of “hits” they would get on their websites, along with other measurements, […]

ShropShire Star: 
“Joe Graham is an entrepreneur, inventor, salesman and shopkeeper. He’s launched two companies and helped to design and market a brand new product. He’s been a museum technician and teacher. He’s given talks and networked at Shropshire Chamber of Commerce.
And he’s still only 18.
The term ‘whizz kid’ could have been coined for Joe, except […]