Israeli-born Nadav Wilf was only 22 when he launched Matrix Media Technologies Inc. in 2004 with partner Jeff Smith. It was the first of their two businesses. The second company, DiscoverSD.com, was launched in 2006. The entrepreneurs grew the companies to $700,000 in revenues by the second year and expect to break the $2.1 million [...]

Anthony Gadsdon, co-director of Mix Limited which creates the Dominate hairstyling range and the Primal Earth shave gel for men, has been named Ernst & Young’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr Gadsdon says he was only 24 when the business started eight years ago. Their products are now sold in New Zealand, Australia and [...]

  At 17, Gurbaksh Chahal was clueless about kissing girls and holding hands, but he was savvy enough to make $300,000 a month with an Internet advertising company he founded in his bedroom at his family’s home in San Jose. When he flew to Los Angeles on business, the young Sikh with a turban and [...]

In the past seven years, the 20-year-old twin brothers – both juniors at the University of Illinois – have formed more than a dozen such ventures, with products ranging from online music to sports apparel to parking-place reservations. “Since I was very young, I’ve been passionate about starting something from nothing,” said Ryan Clark, who’s enrolled in the UI’s Hoeft Technology [...]

We are highlighting each of the winners of the South Cheshire Chamber Business Awards 2008, held in association with the Chronicle. This week: Jonathan Mullarkey, joint winner of Young Businessperson of the Year, sponsored by Crewe Development Agency IT COULD be the luck of the Irish that came through for entrepreneur Jonathan Mullarkey at the [...]

A PRIMARY school pupil has made an early bid to become a dot com millionaire by setting up an internet business at the age of 10. Amy Yeo, who has turned 11 since starting Swapsies, has already secured the support of businesswoman Jo Cameron, a one-time contestant on The Apprentice. And Amy is hoping to [...]

BUDDING Yorkshire entrepreneur Akili Ta Seti, who is just 12-years-old, was among the winners honoured at the 2008 Yorkshire Black Enterprise Convention (YBEC) in Leeds. Akili won The Future of Enterprise Award at the event which aims to celebrate and acknowledge the achievements of successful entrepreneurs from the African and Caribbean communities across Yorkshire and [...]

Norfolk businessman Ali Clabburn has been named one of the one ‘Future 100′ young entrepreneurs of the year in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008. It is a national accolade for the 33-year-old managing director of Attleborough-based Liftshare, which he founded ten years ago. “Being an entrepreneur stretches you, teaches you, gives you experiences you would never [...]

While most kids are busy dreaming of a school-free summer, one local 10-year-old is finalizing his plans for a student ambassador trip to Australia. After being chosen for the People to People program, Khalil Williams raised $6,000 to cover his trip abroad. Then, after hearing the only other African American in the Inland Empire scheduled [...]