Young Millionaire Club: Matt Mickiewicz

By Elizabeth Guo




Matt Mickiewicz co-founded SitePoint.com, 99designs.com and fippa.com.  He was on the Forbes top 30 under 30 lists, Inc Magazine top 30 under 30 lists, and on the mpact 100 list. The value of his companies is over $100M. 



In 1998, when he was a high school student, Matt Mickiewicz started to build websites and do internet researches. On April 1st, 1998, He built his first business by launching a resource information website: Webmaster-Resources.com.

In 1999, partnered with Mark Harbottle and renamed the business SitePoint. In 2001 SitePoint began publishing books.

In February of 2008, he and Mark Harbottle launched a website for the graphics design community, 99 designs, based on their first website.In June of 2009, again based on their first website, he and Mark Harbottle launched website auction business: flippa.com, buying or selling websites from $200 to $400,000 using auction method. 


Website: 
www.sitepoint.com
99designs.com
fippa.com



If you are interested, you can read or listen for more:

1. Chronicles of a Young Serial Entrepreneur
2. Matt Mickiewicz: How I Started 99designs

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Young Millionaire Club: Mark Bao

By Elizabeth Guo

Mark Bao started to do business when he was a 5th grade student and before he graduated from high school, he built 11 web-related companies and 3 non-profit foundations. His goal is to make his personal worth of more than $5 billion.  

Website: Debateware.com,  avecora.com


Mark Bao was born in China and moved to USA with his parents when he was 4 years
old.

When he was a fifth grade student, he wrote a visual basic program to manage homework assignments and sold them to his classmates.

 In his first year in high school, he created Debateware.com, an event system for debate organizations. He sold it to the largest debate organization in USA.

When he was 17 years old, he created 11 web-related companies and 3 non-profit
foundations..

What surprised me: 

Mark Bao created so many companies at such young ages. He claimed that his goal was to be worth over $5 billion, which is another surprise to me. 


If you are interested, you can read or listen for more:

1.  Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur.
2.  Mark Bao Interview: 11 Companies and 3 Foundations by Age 17

WQED "Musical Kids": Please Vote

By Elizabeth Guo



I entered a competition "Musical Kids" on WQED, it is in public voting now. Here is the link for the finalist performance, if you like my performance, could you vote for me?

http://videovote.wqed.org/node/366047

 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Liz

Matthew Guo's Burping

By Elizabeth Guo

This video is just for entertainment purposes only. 

Just thought that it would be funny! 

Seriously, burping is not a good talent to have.

Young Millionaire Club: Catherine Cook

By Elizabeth Guo

The co-founder of Myyearbook.com. Myyearbook.com is a social-networking site for teens similar to Facebook. In 2011, myYearbook was acquired by Latino social networking site Quepasa for $100 Million and the website was renamed to MeetMe.com. Please see David Cook and Geoff Cook.

 

In 2005, David Cook (16 years old) and Catherine Cook (15 years old), both were high school students, had the idea to create a free version of their yearbook on line, MyYearbook, when they looked through their high school yearbook.

In the same year, their brother Geoff Cook invested $250,000 and became the CEO of myYearbook.

By mid-2006, myYearbook had one million users.

In 2011, myYearbook was sold to Quepasa for $100M in cash and stock.

 

 

What surprised me:
 

Catherine and her brother could get a business idea just by flipping around their school yearbook.



Website:

www.meetme.com

 

 

If you want to read more:

 

1.  The First Million: Catherine Cook

2.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeetMe

3.  http://www.inc.com/magazine/201205/liz-welch/catherine-cook-and-geoff-cook-myyearbook.html

Young Millionaire Club: Kevin Sproles

By Elizabeth Guo

 

The founder and CEO of Volusion, an online hosted e-commerce solution for the small business market. Kevin Sproles was named Business week’s “Best 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25”.

 

 In 1999, Kevin Sproles started designing web sites at the age of 16 and he founded Volusion in his bedroom.

In 2001, Kevin Sproles developed the first version of Volusion software, which transferred Volusion from web design to e-commerce hosting service.

In 2003, Collusion’s revenue was $131,000.

In 2010, Volusion had 180 employees and its revenue was over $22.5 million.

 

 

What surprised me:

Kevin Sproles started his business when he was 16 years old. He chose to concentrate on his business instead of going to college.
Website:
www.volusion.com

 

 

If you want to read more:

 

1.  Child Entrepreneur Kevin Sproles: CEO Of Volusion

2.  Kevin Sproles

3.  ENTmoney’s Cool Business Ideas: Kevin Sproles’ Volusion

 

 

 

 

Young Millionaire Club: Sean Belnick

By Elizabeth Guo

 

The founder of BizChair.com, an internet company that sells furniture for offices, schools etc. In 2008, BizChair.com was ranked No. 37 in the list of top 100 retail companies and also ranked No. 48 in the top 100 businesses in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA area by Inc. Magazine.

At age 14, 2001, Sean Belnick noticed an opportunity to sell office furniture on line. The buyers need not come to stores and the seller can lower the prices. So he created BizChair.com with just a $500 investment.

In May 2009, Sean Belnick graduated from Emory University and started to work
fulltime as the CEO of BizChair.com.

In 2005 BizChair.com reported that it was currently having $13.6 million in sales.

In 2011, the sales of BizChair.com rose to over $70 million.

 

 

What surprised me:
 

Sean Belnick started his business when he was only 14 years old with a $500 investment, yet the business was so successful.

Website:  www.bizchair.com

If you want to read more:

1.   BizChair.com
2.  CNN - Young & Rich: Sean Belnick, owner of BizChair.com

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