Ashton and Ryan Clark: The Real Dynamic Duo

When most of us were 12, we were playing video games, developing our first crushes, and getting ready for junior high. Twin brothers Ashton and Ryan Clark, were starting the first in a long line of online businesses. Circuitbreakers.com, an online consumer electronics hub, provided the seed money for a host of business and beginning of a bright business future for the enterprising young boys.

Fast forward to 2009 and the Clarks are in their senior year of college at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and have continued to pursue their passion for business and technology. Under the company name of Dynamic Duo, their mission is simple — to empower your visions through the design and creation of quality websites. To date, the twins operate seven successful web enterprises including their latest sites, Dynamic Apps and Hostivo.

The brainchild of Ryan Clark, Dynamic Apps conducts market research on Facebook and iPhone applications and helps developers create apps that users want and need. Still in the early stages of development, Dynamic Apps is still compiling information and preparing to create its first applications. Hostivo is a design company that produces websites and provides hosting services for companies looking to bring their great ideas to fruition.

But at its heart, Dynamic Duo is all about designing great websites, project, time, and resource management.

“We want to take the best ideas [from Dynamic Apps] and we want to make them happen via Hostivo,” says Ashton. “So the stuff that we’re doing now is all interconnected. We’re using pretty much all of the resources that we’ve developed over the last several years to make this happen. That’s what I call being resourceful.”

In addition to exploring the app world, the twins are also interested in getting into the world of cloud computing, but only  if they can work with the right partner. It’s not a question of capability more than expertise. Since Dynamic Duo is just that, a two man crew that outsources as they need additional hands, the savvy businessmen would rather team up with a company that brings expertise to the table.

And it is the twins expertise in tech, business, and knowing their own limitations and how to compensate when needed that has put Dynamic Duo on the fast track to success. As they set their eyes on the world of corporate America, Ashton sums it up:

“If you’re passionate about something, you don’t have to wait.  You can do it now because it’s your passion. And with that said, you should know everything about that space…You need to understand the key players in the space, what makes them successful because if you’re going to be doing something, you need to know what other people did to make them successful.”

Keep your eyes on the Clark twins because they are blazing a trail for the next generation of black technorati and entrepreneurs.