Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30
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- By Zac Johnson on July 31st, 2007
Inc. Magazine recently posted an article they did on the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30“. I love articles like these, not only do they focus on the young new talent in marketing, but it always inspires me with a ton of new motivation and ideas. When you look over the list of site names, I’m sure you will come across at least one or two that you may know. What may surprise you is how much the web site is generating, but even more so, who is running them and how young they may be.
When I first looked over the list, I was already familiar with most of the sites and had previously read up on these young entrepreneurs elsewhere. One name on the list that stood out to me was Raj Lahoti, who runs DMV.org and now generating over $11.5 million a year. I first met with Raj at Affiliate Force 2002, which was also my first speaking conference (which was held on a cruise). Raj and I had a lot in common, we are the same age and talked about our decisions on whether or not to attend college, how much both of us loved to do business online and much more. It was pretty cool to see someone my age (at the time I was only 20) with the same passion and experience I had for making money online.
Ah.. back when we were young… very young!
After Affiliate Force, Raj and I kept in touch and sent a few ideas back and forth while keeping each other updating on our latest money making adventures. Then around a year later, Raj sent me an email asking for me to look over DMV.org and offer any ideas I might have had for improving the sites earnings or user experience. He mentioned that his brother had the domain and he was going to focus on building it up as his main focus, and it was already receiving a lot of search traffic from DMV related searches. I remember the site was a lot more simplistic back in 2003 when he first showed me the site, and now it’s a main source for anyone searching on DMV or anything relating to driving… not to mention a mega multi-million dollar money maker! Congrats Raj, I knew you were heading towards the top!
As for the rest of the list, you’d be surprised at how much some of these smaller company / sites are earning in annual revenues. Read through the site and examine their business ideas. See what amazing ideas you can come up with and maybe next year you will make the list!
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"With great power comes great responsibility".... my Uncle Ben told me that. Haha, just kidding! I'm Zac Johnson and I've been making money online for over 10 years now. In short, I started making money online while I was in high school... but my passion for marketing and making money goes back way earlier than that. I created ZacJohnson.com to help motivate you to start making money online, and live the life the you always dreamed of.
They forgot about me.
One Man. One Year. $100,000 online. How’s he doing it?
Replyhttp://www.oneyeargoal.com
Yes…they forgot a lot of people
ReplyThis was a great article. Just like you, these types of articles always give me a lot of motivation!
ReplyGood article, always inspiring. I was surprised that the popcorn flavoring guy brings in $5 mil a year! I just saw that for the first time at a theater a couple months back and thought it was a great idea.
ReplyBy the way Zac, you should “float” the avatar in the comments to the text wraps around it rather than starting underneath it.
Replygreat post, i found it very motivating!
Replywow… 11.5 mil ? thats a good friend to have lol
ReplySince my last post I have seen this article link about 10 more times. And each time I get more and more excited!!
ReplyI’m working on being included in the next article! I hope they don’t raise the age to 40 though, that would suck.
ReplyThis is just so exciting and an old friend with you earning 11.5 million now, are you going to be next, zac?
ReplyRaj is definetly a great guy. I am very happy that all his hard work paid off. I use to hang out with Raj almost every weekend back in high school. I guess I am learning day by day to think outside the box.
ReplyIts late
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BTW how is he monitize his site ? is that like PPC ?
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