4. Rakesh Rocky Patel, Rocky Patel Cigars

Rocky Patel is the Indian born American, who was originally a Hollywood lawyer and he had represented several movie stars including Arnold Schwarenegger and Gene Hackman. It was at that time when he got exposed to smoking cigars while spending time with the actors. He was the one who introduced Indian tobacco blend in the mid 1990s and he had almost sacrificed 15 long years of his life to start this business. Even though his friends and colleagues warned him to leave such a profitable practice for an industry he didn’t know, he saw an opportunity to create a product he thought which was missing in the market. His business took a good turn with the first big success that came in the year 2003 with ‘The Rocky Vintage Series,” which earned him high ratings and tributes. His cigar company now produces 20,000,000 cigars annually and in 2011 it had sales in excess of $40 million.

5. Kim and Beaver Raymond, Marshmallow, Fun Company

Kim and Beaver quit their jobs when their dream home made toy for their son became a big hit surprisingly. They both were working in the fashion industry in 2002, when they made marshmallow “shooters” out of PVC pipe to their son’s birthday party. With this success, the couple along with some of their friends figured out how to construct and market a new toy marshmallow shooter and at this time the Marshmallow Company took its birth. The company sold more than $7million worth of shooters in the year 2010.