{"id":2292,"date":"2010-08-13T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2010-08-13T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T05:08:14","slug":"how-a-16-year-old-kid-made-his-first-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/13\/how-a-16-year-old-kid-made-his-first-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 16-Year Old Kid Made His First Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Jesus Diaz<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HowHis name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it.<\/p>\n

The British teen\u2014who lives in Corby, Northamptonshire\u2014got his first computer age seven. Three years later he got a Mac and taught himself web design. Four years later\u2014at age 14, in 2008\u2014he started his first company. It was a simple site that some of you may know: Mac Bundle Box. The site was pretty, rooted into Apple’s own design guidelines and style.<\/p>\n

\"HowThe page sold a package of very neat Mac OS X applications for a discounted price and for a limited time. He would negotiate with the developers to get a discount deal on their apps. The resulting bundle had a combined retail value of around $400, but he would sell it for a tenth of that price<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not only that: If enough people bought the package, a new application would get unlocked for all buyers, which guaranteed very good word-of-mouth promotion. And to top it all, Owens dedicated a percentage of all sales to charity.<\/p>\n

The idea did well. Very well, in fact: In its first two years, Mac Bundle Box made $1,000,000 (700,000 British Pounds).<\/p>\n

Not happy with that success, Owens jumped into a new venture called Branchr, a pay-per-click advertising company that distributes 300 million ads per month on over 17,500 websites, iPhone, and Android applications. The company, which claims to deliver “contextual, behavioral, publisher-defined, and geographically” targeted ads in those platforms, has already made $800,000 in its first year and employs eight adults including his 43-year-old mother, Alison.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t know where he would be in 10 years, but the next thing he wants to do is to make one hundred million British pounds with Branchr. He seems to be on his way to success. He claims his business is growing strong\u2014Branchr has already bought another company<\/em>\u2014and he reinvests all the money back into the company.<\/p>\n

His secret to success? There’s no secret, he says:<\/p>\n

There is no magical formula to business, it takes hard work, determination and the drive to do something great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an age of idiotized kids who can’t focus on anything, we salute you, Christian. [SWNS<\/a>]
\nBonus:Samurai Jack & Powerpuff Girls: Are they the same universe? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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