6 Teens Who Became Millionaires Without College Degrees

1. Adam Horowitz
The 23-year old became a millionaire before he hit 18, a personal entrepreneurial goal he had set his mind on since the age of 15. After a string of failures, he launched Mobile Monopoly, an online course educating people on making money through mobile marketing leads, which earned him six-figure profits. Born ambitious, he didn’t feel the need to acquire a college degree and just tried one business idea after another until success and millions came calling. Horowitz is now busy with a new social network for young entrepreneurs called Young & Boss.




 
2. Cameron Johnson
At nine, he first made invitations for a party organized by his parents, and put his name and logo on the back of the invites. It was not long before orders for invitation cards came pouring in from neighbors. At 11, he sold his sister’s Beanie Baby collection on eBay for a $900 profit. Today, the 29-year old is a successful entrepreneur, top-rated speaker and best-selling author estimated to be worth more than $3 million. And he did it without a college degree, dropping out of Virginia Tech (which he had joined at the behest of his parents) and focusing instead on putting his innate business acumen to good use.





3. Ashley Qualls
At 14, Qualls launched Whateverlife.com, a website providing free HTML tutorials and MySpace layouts targeted at teens. The site was an instant hit, garnering seven million visits a month, and which at one point, was reportedly receiving more traffic than CBS.com. One year later, Qualls dropped out of high school to devote all her time to her website business. Two years after the site’s launch, she received an offer for $1.5 million, but turned it down.






4. Juliette Brindak
With a net worth of $30 million and no online college degree to boot, the New York native is the co-founder and CEO of Miss O & Friends, a tween social networking site whose early investors include Procter & Gamble. Inc. magazine ranked it as the third biggest girls-only site in 2011.




 

5. Tyler Dikman
A self-made millionaire, Dikman founded CoolTronics at age fifteen to help individuals and small businesses extract maximum advantage from computer technology. He didn’t think getting a college degree was necessary to developing a million-dollar grossing company from ground up.

 6. Jon Koon The Chinese-American entrepreneur, designer and artist made his first million at age 16 from his auto-parts business. He soon expanded his interests into fashion, launching his own streetwear collection and collaborating with the likes of Adidas. Koon has traveled all over the world to seek design inspirations but doesn’t yet have a college degree to his name.