Internet Millionaires Success Stories

MEET ALLEN WONG. A YOUNG AND SUCCESSFUL APP DEVELOPER WHO WAS KIND ENOUGH TO SHARE HIS STORY WITH THE RIDICULOUS TEAM AND ALL OF READERS. THIS FEATURE WILL GIVE YOU A LITTLE PEAK INTO THE WORLD OF ALLEN WONG AND HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET. WE WANT TO THANK ALLEN FOR HIS TIME AND IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT ALLEN, BE SURE TO CHECK OUT HIS BOOK… Tell us a little about your story…How did the Allen Wong we all know today come to be?

If you’re a Facebook user, you may have heard of a game called Farmville. A repetitive simulation game that involved planting and raising crops, Farmville was nonetheless Zynga’s most popular game. While other people were content merely to play the game, local entrepreneur Chan Peng Joon  earned over USD$1.2 million by selling guides to it. “The way I look at it, it’s a gold rush. There will be a small minority who strike gold, while the rest lose out,” says the 27 year old, describing his philosophy behind online marketing.

At 14, Sean Belnick took $500 and started selling office chairs online. Today, he's running a $24 million furniture company whose customers include Microsoft, Google, and the Pentagon. Like so many successful entrepreneurs, Sean Belnick came up with his great big idea after watching what other companies were doing wrong. The only difference is, in his case, this eureka moment happened to come at the age of 14.

At 15, Catherine Cook and her brother Dave, 17, were flipping through their high school yearbook and came up with the idea to develop a free interactive version online. In 2005, the two convinced their older brother Geoff, a budding Web entrepreneur himself, to invest $250,000 and his time to help them launch MyYearbook.com, a social-networking site, based in Skillman, N.J.