Category: young entrepreneurs

Creating Dream Closets-a New Dress for every Occasion! Company: RentTheRunway Founders: Jennifer Carter Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman Founded Year: 2009 Rent the Runway, popular as RTR, is a membership-based company that offers renowned designers’ attire …

Airbnb, an online community marketplace for people seeking short term accommodation on rent, private parties, and family celebration, is one of the most successful start-up ventures founded by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia …

LivingSocial is a Washington, D.C based e-commerce discount website, offering products such as daily deals, Escapes, Families,Takeout & Delivery and Gourmet. Living Social is known to be one of the most successful start-up ventures founded …

Company and Website: Modcloth ModCloth.com, an American online clothing, accessories, and decor retailer that specializes in vintage-inspired and indie clothing. It was launched in 2002 by Susan Gregg-Koger (then 17-year-old) and her the then-boyfriend, and …

Company: AnchorFree Age: 29 Year founded: 2006 Location: San Francisco Employees: 22 Website: AnchorFree.com In 2003, at the age of 23, two Hebrew school mates David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky co-founded AnchorFree.com with the intention …

Company: LearnVest Age: 27 Founder: Alexa Von Tobel Year Founded: 2009 Harvard grad Alexa Von Tobel came up with the idea of LearnVest, an online personal-finance resource for women, when she herself stumbled upon the …

Company: Instagram Kevin Systrom: 25 years Mike Krieger 27 Two Stanford graduate Kevin Systrom, who had already served on Google’s Gmail as well as corporate development, and Mike Krieger, a Symbolic Systems student with specialization …

“Helping Innovative Ideas Get off the Ground Company: Quirky Age: 25 Location: Burlington, Vt. Year founded:June 2009 Funds: $23.3million funds In 2009, Ben Kaufman founded New York based an online consumer products company Quirky with …

Company: Grasshopper Founded: In 2003 as GotVMail Communications in Boston, Massachusetts Grasshopper, previously known as GotVMail Communications, was started as a joint venture of two undergrads from Babson College, Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser in …

Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman Websites: CollegeHunksHaulingJunk and 1800JunkUSA Year founded: 2003 Location: Tampa, FL The U.S. based junk removal and moving company College Hunks Hauling Junk started as a summer project in Washington, D.C. …

The company: Meraki.com Founders: Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket Location: San Francisco, CA Year founded: 2006 Investors Google, Sequoia Capital and DAG Ventures Two MIT graduate student Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket along with Hans …

Alex Tew Website: MillionDollarHomepage Age at the time: 21 years Time taken: 5 months The innovative idea of creating The Million Dollar Homepage crossed Alex Tew’s mind while he was still a student at the …