Some people just can’t wait to be entrepreneurs. Take Michael Schneider, whose high school hobby of designing Web sites for friends evolved into a business.

Now, at age 27, Schneider recently started another Santa Monica company, an online portal for mothers. Or take Andres Izquieta and Dee Murthy, who were so eager they started their clothing company before their entrepreneurship classes at USC even began.

If you imagined that entrepreneurship was an outdated concept among the young, turn the page. You’ll see 20 Angelenos all still in their 20s who have started and are now running their own unique businesses.

Maybe not every business will survive, but since virtually all the young entrepreneurs said they can’t imagine working for someone else, it seems likely that they would try, try again. As 29-year-old Jason Nazar put it: “I’ll probably be starting companies for the rest of my life.”