Business Spotlight: Lilburn's Byte Ideas & Solutions

It seems that Jason McMinn is exactly where destiny wants him to be.

His first brush with computers was at the age of 6, and it's been the obvious direction for his career path since then.

"My Dad woke up at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and I was on his computer," he said. "I was like 6 years old. I was just putzing with it, and about a week later, he bought me my own Apple II Classic."

He promptly took it a part, and put it back together again, changing some of the parts while he was at it. Now, he's 34, and is running his own IT business -- Byte Ideas & Solutions, based in Lilburn.

Before he was an entrepreneur, he was doing what most people do: lending his talents to a large company. At 16, for example, he went to work for one of the nation's first dial-up Internet providers.