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- rysolag, on 10/12/2007, -29/+72what a little bitch.
- lefrat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38The guy who made Programmer Meet Designer ( http://programmermeetdesigner.com ) is pretty young too, I think he is 13. Know any other young entrepreneurs?
- calebb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29"The Digg community is often criticized as being immature..."
http://themulife.com/?p=165 - spankybumbum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24This is the first intelligent comment I have seen on Digg since I started reading a couple months ago. It's actually on topic, and encourages further discussion of this subject. Instead of the usual "this is a dupe" "i hate microsoft" "everybody knows this already"
And it is at -3 diggs?
Ok and I like the first comment too. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Sorry, didn't mean to call myspace users sheep. I actually meant to call them pathetic unimaginative *****.
- DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10too bad her name is "weina"
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9FTA:
"First, though, she has to study her physics."
"She balances her work duties with doing homework for seven advanced placement classes at Krop Senior High School and applying to colleges."
Wow, really?! I never would have guess that a high schooler would have other responsibilities! I wish people could write articles about teens without resorting to all kinds of cliche reminders of just how young they are. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I've seen Switchpod before, never knew it was done by a youngun. Good for her.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Considering that it doesn't, maybe it's because you're stoned.
Or just spamming. - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Wha? So, it's a content hosting company? So WTF does speech recognition and text-to-speech have to do with it? Why on earth did Wizzard buy Switchpod?
"Wizzard's chief executive ... was getting requests for software that can turn text in a blog to audio"
And so they bought out a hosting company?
Either something doesn't ring true or the article is really, really poorly written.
Good for Weina and Jake, though sounds a bit .com-bubble to me. - quaispalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"A year ago they were making a profit of about $400 a month, which they split. Since then, the downloads have doubled, and the monthly profit is now more than $1,000, Weina says."
By my math, that's $500 a month for the two co-owners -- which is $6,000 a year. $40k is her salary, not the company's income. - DJDrastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can You Guys Hear That ? It's the sound of a bubble expanding before bursting
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What state are you in? $25 incorporation fees... nice!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6People are obsessed with the term CEO, like it demands so much power. I can file a $25 incorporation any day of the week and become the CEO of additional companies. If you don't utilize a real Board of Directors, the officer titles mean nothing.
I'm proud of her, but not for being a
"CEO" - lustre, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Well, she'll get sued by the Apple TM bozos for sure.
- BabyWookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Is she hot? Where's the pix?!?
- DataLifePlus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2RedBarRadio.com
- buckykatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a picture with the original story here:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/15578304.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Best comment I've seen all week.
What amazing is that its totally accurate as well. - affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I'm 16 and i want to be an entrepreneur one problem I have to come up with a idea.
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I dug you guys both up. But I do find it funny that someone with the user name spankybumbum makes such articulate digg comments. I would have totally been expecting "this is a dupe" "i hate microsoft" "everybody knows this already".
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The kid who runs http://www.coursetips.com/ is only 16, he was in the AJGA golf book this year. There was a sidebar about whether kids can make money running a business related to a sport they play, get paid, but still keep their NCAA eligibility.
Not many reviews on the new site, as far as I can see, but the mapping of all the golf courses using Google Maps is pretty cool. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sad how her forum only has 92 members though, lmao. I know tons of people in their teens that own forums with thousands of members.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"My friends, they don't do podcasting. They do MySpace ..."
I'm bloody glad I don't have her friends. - csaribay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm mightily disappointed that TNW couldn't do a little more research and find a project of real substance. While I'm thoroughly unimpressed with the website and service (it's certainly not all that great), the fact that someone her age is gaining notoriety for it is significant.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Now thats a chick I'd like to meet.
- ersnyder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That's pretty freaking awesome, good for her. +digg
- JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@spanky
yeah i like your comment + digg
:-) - codercode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have you ever heard of Michael Furdyk? http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683144.htm
- codercode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I belive there's still a long long way to go before this 'bubble' burst. You're still living in the shadow of dot-com-bubble-phobia.
- sc0tt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@spanky
I totally agree with that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So what? She isn't running just a forum, it's something that's been tacked on to her site. Most 'tacked-on' forums get very little traffic compared to your friend's forums, but it doesn't matter because they have another business model.
- citrusfizz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5is that her on her website with the promotional shirt?
i'd throw it in.... - aspangenberg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://www.switchpod.com/index.php?ref=aspangenberg
- aspangenberg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://www.switchpod.com/index.php?ref=aspangenberg
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9Clever lass. while her friends follow the flock, she goes out sheparding others.
- ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2no pictures? :P
- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2wait, she/he sold a site that gets 300,000 people a month for $200,000? Isn't that a little low for that amount of traffic?
- marshman222, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5two months later, she gets sued for copyright infringement by big businesses and her story will be heard around the world. all in the cycle of teen ceo's
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Wow nice one
- pmantis205, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Apple lawsuit in 3....2....1....
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3How come that site looks just like (http://www.podshow.com/) ?
- brianjameskirk, on 10/12/2007, -46/+7people just don't appreciate good sarcasm... unfortunately you will probably get dugg down :/
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