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I hope the following stories would inspire you to go beyond what you are currently able to do. Read and be inspired!
Your fellow Techno-Learner!
Success Stories
Amazing success story of a teen techieAnand Lal Shimpi brings new meaning to words like "passion" and "tireless". Not to mention "teenage." The 17-year-old high school senior who is the CEO and creator of an Internet company (www.anandtech.com) that reviews hardware, juggles school and 60-hour workweeks, a steady girlfriend, time with friends and, as their only child, a close relationship with his parents.
Boy WonderInternet entrepreneur Carl Churchill is expected to have made more money than Wayne Rooney, Keira Knightley and Jamie Bell by 2020. In fact, the company he founded is currently making a turnover of one million pounds. And he's only just turned 19...
A youngster's entrepreneurship yields him millionsWhen Farrah Gray was 8, he used his lunchbox as a briefcase and printed up his own business cards, boldly declaring himself a "twenty-first century" CEO.
Teen Internet Moguls Web-savvy kids are turning their fun and games into million-dollar businesses When Michael Furdyk and his partners sold their Web site for more than $1 million last spring, Furdyk got a pile of money, gushing publicity--and work-study credits toward his high school degree. Furdyk, now 17, still doesn't have his diploma. But he got enough venture capital for his new startup to lease a spacious office suite and employ 20 staffers--including his father, who just quit his job as an executive at NCR Corp.
Teen weaves big success on WebBrett Klasko is an editor, publisher and president of his own financial dot-com company.In a few short years, he built his Internet business, Investors Alley Corp. (www.investorsalley.com) into an award-winning Web site that receives a quarter-million page views a month, has more than 10,000 registered users and publishes the work of a nationwide network of about 30 free-lance financial correspondents.
Teen's Web business surviving dot-com bust His company has survived situations in which many have faltered: the first three years in business, vast marketplace changes, the dot-com bust - even the CEO's 15th birthday.
Tales of a teenage CEOThe high school sophomore from California's San Fernando Valley may not have much Silicon Valley cred, but she does have some unique insight into the lives of the 68 million members of GenerationI, and she's drawing from it as the founder and president of Goosehead, a company that produces and streams Web shows on a site for teens who aren't "little kids."
Teenage tycoon He owns a company that expects to gross a million this year - but first he needs to graduate from high school.Tyler Dikman bought his first platinum Rolex two years ago. He paid $17,000 cash last year for his 1997 Infiniti J30. He has discussed the future of wireless networking with Bill Gates and had his picture taken with Michael Dell.
