Bangalore: When a person has a diehard passion towards his hobby, it is obvious that he has great interest and control over it. Such interests and passions can sometime help you make some bucks, but all it demands is creativity, originality and marketability. An entrepreneurial idea can be easily generated from an individual’s hobby and this notion can be backed with various examples of budding entrepreneurs from the recent past. May be a person has great passion towards coding and decoding and this can become his entrepreneurial venture with utmost dedication and commitment towards his passion. Here are few entrepreneurs who never left their hobbies as mere pastime act and rather worked towards it to make their favorite passion a million dollar business as compiled by entrepreneur.com

Craig Jenkins – Sutton

Hobby: Gardening

Company: Topiarius

Revenue: $1.2 Million (2011)

Craig Jenkins-Sutton started designing gardens with no formal training on it, he had a great desire towards gardening and it was his only passion as he grew up in a farm near Minnesota. He wanted to take up his hobby as a profession and worked for a landscape service but later realized that he was not comfortable working for others.