Entrepreneurship is the act and an entrepreneur becomes the actor, the outcome of the actor and the act is called an enterprise. According to Joseph Schumpter, “Entrepreneurship is the process used by an entrepreneur to shatter the status quo of existing products and services, to establish new products, new services”. In the country where the tertiary sector made of entrepreneurs contribute the highest in essential growth, miracles were miraculously mastered by a few youngsters who tip off difficulties like pieces of dust.
Advait Thakur
Can anyone not be traumatized if asked to imagine a world without computers? Well, the man being written about is known to be the master of computers. In the fruitful period of life called childhood, Advait was unlike his pals. He became interested in technology, eventually watching his dad code on his computer.
At the very budding age of 9, he built his first website. His second teen was when he took to building ‘Technology Quiz’, the app that helped students to learn science and technology. He’s now the CEO of Apex Infosys, India. Collaborating with Google with their Artificial Intelligence, NLP and Cloud Computing, he is also a Google adwords and analytics and mobile sites expert.
Akhilendra Sahu
Starting his freelance work at 16, he built and became the CEO of ASTNT Technologies in no time of three years.
Its subsidiaries include ASTNT Media, Technical Next, 2Newswire, InfinityFame, StartUp199, HeyIndia, and ThePublishly.
Farrhad Acidwalla
At the age of 13 he borrowed ₹1200 from his father to start an internet community. Purchasing an internet domain at 16, he was casually interviewed by CNN at 17. He sold his original business idea to a fan for ₹25000 to create a WDM firm called “Rockstah Media”, though he was successful.
He is the youngest speaker at IIT Kharagpur’s Entrepreneurship Summit and is also a TedX Speaker.
King Sidharth
Observing prevailing boredom, young Sidharth decided to start making youngsters engaged. He began conducting contests and events remotely. He started charging the participants to reward them for victories. This act of his became a huge hit but his thinking did not end right there.
His innovation also led to the idea to start selling leftover wedding flowers as necklaces. He introduced a magazine called “Friendz” where young adults could both read and write.
Pravas Chandragiri
A software led service led platform Soptle was built by Pravas Chandragiri. This app connects Business to Business on a retail business basis. This revolutionized the work style of all FMCG manufacturers more digitally which made them track record of the process and work more profitably.
At 12, his drive appeared by looking at the struggle of his family running a grocery store.
Finally at 17 he aspired to connect retailers and distributors which grew into Soptle.
Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran
A decade of life was not enough to learn but create a new beginning for them. Go Dimensions is a mobile app development unit, founded by the duo in 2011.
They together created 11 applications, 7 for Apple’s App Store, 3 for Google Play Store and the latest one for New Windows Mobile store as a debut. When kids played games, the mastermind ‘tech- savvy brothers’ built an app to develop those gaming applications.
Sreelakshmi Suresh
The world’s youngest web designer and CEO at the age of ten, was no matter for Sreelakshmi Suresh. She poured rains of accolades at that age for her company eDesign. eDesign’s vast services include SEO set up, web design building and other online services. They have created and served more than 100 such projects for prestigious companies and brands.
Looking back, it awes the audience of the woman who grew all the way from the little girl who built a website at 6, again from the toddler who used the computer at 3.
Tilak Mehta
The new sprout in our list is Tilak Mehta. His seed, Papers n Parcels is known for its quickness in delivery and is also said to be equally competitive in market to large scale companies. Papers and small products are guaranteed same day delivery by Mehta’s company. He was driven towards this idea when he found his dad tired and exhausted after his work, but he could never ask.
With the collaboration of ‘Dubbawalas’ in Mumbai, he made upto 1200 deliveries everyday. His heights have now reached being a Tedx Speaker, the youngest Forbes panelist and the recipient of the Youngest Entrepreneur award.
Udit Singhal
Glass 2 Sand was the revolution he owned, while the country massively revolted along. This startup created an intense change in the society as 65,000 glass bottles were recycled into 39,000 kg of industry-grade silica sand, reducing 2,70,000 kg carbon emission.
A 21 year old who grew with sustainability and vision led to the success of this enterprise.
