Meet These Young Entrepreneurs

 Janhvi Mehta

All great businesses start with a mere idea. How you execute the idea is what makes you an entrepreneur. These teenage entrepreneurs had a crazy idea. Alongside, the idea, they made smart decisions. And now, they are thriving as young business owners.  

1.     Noa Mintz

At only 16, Noa Mintz founded a company called Nannies by Noa which provides childcare services for families in New York City and the Hamptons. Mintz started her first business at the age of 10. Her first venture was taking art classes alongside planning children birthday parties. Of course, her execution was not as perfect as she was only 10 years old. But today, Noa runs a childcare agency. She has been known to handle critical responsibilities like vetting the nannies, handling customer issues, monitoring the background checks on the nannies.

2.     George Matus

He is an 18-year-old who founded a company called Teal. Teal markets commercial drones and its flagship product is a battery-operated, camera equipped unmanned aerial vehicle that reaches high speed as fast as 70 mph. Matus has been building and flying RC planes and drones since he was in high school. To learn more about this field, he would work with companies as a pilot to learn about the complete spectrum of drone technology. After gaining some experience, he made a wishlist of all the features a perfect drone would require and incorporated those into his product. Matus has raised more than $2.8 million in seed funding and is a recipient of the Thiel Fellowship.

3.     Mikaila Ulmer

As a founder of Me & the Bees Lemonade, this 11-year-old gives all the kids with lemonade stands a run for their money. Me & the Bees offers lemonade that promotes usage of flaxseed and local honey as a sweetener which can be found in retailers like Whole Foods and Wegmans. Ulmer concerned about the well being of bees, donates a portion of the profits to organisations that help save bees. She plans on continuing her journey as a social entrepreneur in the future and teach people about entrepreneurship.

4.     Shubham Banerjee

The founder of Braigo labs is 14 year old. Braigo Labs was formed to help the visually impaired by offering them low cost Braille printers. Their main motive is to provide seamless solutions for life’s problems. Their new model uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to automatically print text from a website and translate it into Braille. Banerjee has big plans for his future as he wants to join a field which merges both his passions i.e. health and science.

5.     Shravan Kumaran and Sanjay Kumaran

These two 16 and 15 year old brothers have founded Go Dimensions. This company is an app development unit which they started in their own house. Over a few years, they have developed 7 apps which are available at the app store along with 3 other apps which are available at Google’s android play store. Their most popular apps include Catch Me Cop which is game about a prisoner who escapes jail and is hiding from the police.

6.     Sreelakshmi Suresh

At age 17, Suresh is the CEO and founder of eDesign Technology. eDesign is a website designing company offering services like website design, web development, SEO and logo designing. They have already catered their facilities to more than 100 websites for various institutions and organisations including Bar Council of Kerala, Angels International, EHP India, Mammas Passion, and others.

7.     Keegan Bonds-Harmon

This 16 year old is the founder of Keegan’s Creatures. He started his business by learning how to screen print, then he made conceptual designs which mostly consisted of monsters and crazy things out of his imagination. He then, transferred those designs to a T shirt. Harmon, then began selling them at local artist markets, independent stores and on Etsy. Recently Bonds-Harmon won the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship New England Regional Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. Now, he is competing for the top prize in the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.

These inspiring youngsters prove that business is not just for adults anymore. If you are teen with an idea that could blossom into a full-fledged business then welcome to the world of possibilities. These teenagers made smart decisions as teenagers. One day they’ll look back at these times and have a sense of self accomplishment and pride. Hopefully, stories like these inspire everyone to take initiative.