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Inc.com did an annual search for the nation’s coolest young entrepreneurs and guess what there are 2 Indians listed on it.

Raj Lahoti
Rank: #9
Age: 25
Location: San Diego
2006 Revenue: $11.5 million
Employees: 15
Year founded: 2003

After a few years dabbling in Internet domain acquisition and traffic brokering, Raj Lahoti set out to build up one of his brother’s domains in order to provide meaningful content in an area that, well, generally lacks it. DMV.ORG, the “Online Unofficial Guide to the DMV,” aggregates information from the (often dreaded) Department of Motor Vehicles in each state — all in one place. Users can access information on everything from applying for a license to ordering a driving record, without the aggravation of standing in the DMV’s endless lines.

Check out his profile here (link here)

Mangesh Hattikudur
Rank : #23
Age: 28
Location: Birmingham, Ala.
Employees: 12
2006 Revenue: $1.7 million
Year founded: 2001

Mental Floss magazine offers a fun, irreverent look at knowledge and facts. As Pearson put it, “Our mission is to find anyway we can to blur the lines between education and entertainment.” The founders started the venture at Duke University as a campus publication and quickly turned it into a national magazine. But they have pushed the brand further than the magazine — producing books, board games, and soon a series of children’s books

Check out his profile here (link here)

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site which lets you to manage all your bookmarks in one place. You could also share them with your friends and could see what other people are bookmarking. Do you want to create something like del.icio.us? try Scuttle. Scuttle is an open source social bookmarking engine that you can run on your own site. It’s based on PHP and supports most of the del.icio.us protocol. If you want to get started on your own social bookmarking site right away, you can download Scuttle’s source code at SourceForge.

The installation is really easy. All you need to do is upload the files, create a new database, import the .sql file that comes with the download to create the required tables and change some default configuration values and off you go. You got yourself a social bookmarking site. I have never come across a site which uses Scuttle so far. I just tried this in my personal computer seems to work fine. And here is a screenshot from scuttle.