Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
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#2Insanely great. Reminds of that post about K->12 students doing startups a while ago... maybe they can do it, after all.
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#3She's 17 years old, and she declined a 1.6$M offer.
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#4Insanely great. Reminds of that post about K->12 students doing startups a while ago... maybe they can do it, after all.
yes, but i think it's a logical leap to propose that you can teach it at that level. i'm not entirely convinced it can be "taught" at any level.
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#5It's awesome to see not just a young person succeeding on their startup, but a female as well. Clearly female hackers are more rare than their male counterparts, so bravo to Ashley for blazing her own trail.
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#6the fact that the average young person has neither taste nor technical ability is evidently quite a lucrative business opportunity.
unfortunately myspace has repeatedly shown that they are hostile to external business partners and don't want to turn myspace into an ecosystem. at any time they could capriciously shut you down. it's rupert murdoch and fox news you're dealing with.
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#7Ok seriously. This is right under my nose! Detroit. I'm in Mt. Pleasant. Wow. Awesome that the googleplex ann arbor isn't the only successful tech development in this troubled economy. And at only 17, I applaud her.
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#8the fact that the average young person has neither taste nor technical ability is evidently quite a lucrative business opportunity. unfortunately myspace has repeatedly shown that they are hostile to external business partners and don't want to turn myspace into an ecosystem. at any time they could capriciously shut you down. it's rupert murdoch and fox news you're dealing with.
She has, quite effectively, hedged her investments against such an occurrence. If you read the article, you'll see that she is playing on multiple social networks, cell phones, and online utilities. She's a damned mogul, and the lot of us should be so lucky to cover our asses as effectively. She's going to do very very well in life as long as she keeps her head on straight when things get crazy and when markets evolve (and as she grows up).
Of course, I also agree that betting on MySpace or Facebook alone is a death wish.
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#9It's awesome to see not just a young person succeeding on their startup, but a female as well. Clearly female hackers are more rare than their male counterparts, so bravo to Ashley for blazing her own trail.
She's more a designer than hacker, but nonetheless, she's really good. It's not my cup of tea for my own sites, but her design sense is impressive for one with so little experience and training.
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#10It's awesome to see not just a young person succeeding on their startup, but a female as well. Clearly female hackers are more rare than their male counterparts, so bravo to Ashley for blazing her own trail.
Well yes, it is rare. But this isn't really hacking--its more art and css/html (digital media). I worked with this 17 year old CSS girl at my last job. I asked her why she didn't want to go in to tech, since she was so good. She told me something to the effect that because she was asian and firstborn, she had to do what her mom wanted, which was for her to be a lawyer. blah