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In no way, shape or form do I condone this young mans behavior from Palm Beach.  Yet he went against all odds, dropped out of school and is making a six figure income by being a professional video game player.  18 year old Tom Taylor managed to create a small lucrative franchise through gaming contracts, product endorsements and game tutoring.

He is one of only about 100 professional gamers belonging to the Major League Gaming association founded in 2002.  In a good month, these gamers can bring home a few grand.  He signed a $250,000 contract six months after going pro.  At which time he hired a publicist, a financial advisor and a media trainer. 

The tutoring side of his business charges $65 an hour for those wanting to follow in his footsteps.  Showing aspiring teens how to excel or even go pro as a gamer using just his Xbox Live.

I don’t expect the fella’s to know what that is, but the young ladies might recognize these as shades of nail polish. The brain child of 2 sisters ages 18 and 20 that could not find the just right color of makeup, so they made there own. Brewed it up right in there kitchen. The grunge-y, punk colors were such a hit they started selling it. Refilling old polish bottles from beauty salons with hand made lables.

Motivated by the success of Hard Candy (another ‘alternative’ cosmetic company), two West L.A. sisters Anna and Sarah Levinson launced “RIPE”. After there line of makeup caught on, the two have contracted with a New Jersey manufacturer who mixes the polishes and sends it along to an L.A. fulfillment house, which bottles and boxes the product.

One year after starting (in 1996), the two had about $300,000 in sales. 1997 was a lot closer to $1 million. For more of the story click here

Cameron Johnson was not your average lad. Even before starting his first business at 9 years printing greeting cards, stationery, and invitations for family and friends using his computer and printer, he was selling vegetables door to door from his little red wagon at 7. In 4^th grade he sold more raffle tickets then everyone else in his K-12 school. In 5^th grade he outsold everyone with wrapping paper.

For his 11^th birthday he got stocks. So he learned all he could about them. He soon sold and also invested several thousand dollars of his own money into companies of his choice. In just a few years time, he had multiplied his investment seven times.

At the age of fifteen and as a freshman in high school, his internet company had grown to sales in excess of $15,000 per day. And that is just the beginning.

Read and see more then 200 interviews and stories here

Meet Tyler Dikman. He started out selling lemonade and then charging $25 performing magic shows for children’s parties. At age 15 he started CoolTronics after an internship at Merrill Lynch taught him how to fix computers. As a Senor in High School, his 3 year old company was looking a $1 Million year.

He started working out of his fathers den and had to transform the living room into a shipping dock. Shortly there after his parents had to add a room onto the house to keep up with the booming business.

He did all this with a drivers license or a car. His customers would come and pick him up. And before he started college he was rubbing elbows with Bill Gates and Michael Dell.

Read more about his modest story here.