The world of digital opportunities immeasurable. One of them: a squillionaires without the need to wait for gray hair first. Since a teenager, a number of ABG geekkini has become Richie Rich.
Everyone knows, one of the icons Richie Rich 2.0 is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. Youth who drop out of Harvard University and is now aged about 27 years, has made a fortune when he had just turned 20. Until March 2011, the s
Here are three teens rich because of the technology:
1. Robert Nay
Addict mobile games and iPhone users certainly no stranger to the Angry Fish. Because of the popularity, the game had occupied the position of the number 1 most downloaded app in the iTunes App Store. However, since early 2011 and then, Angry Fish mercilessly dumped by Bubble Ball, a new game creation Robert Nay, an ABG was 14 years old. It's kind of puzzle game in which players tested the ability of thinking to make bubble balloons reached the destination.
This free game, recorded already downloaded two million more people, only two weeks since launch. With rough calculations that for every game that is downloaded, Apple paid U.S. $ 0.99-equivalent Rp9.000-Nay had pocketed an income of U.S. $ 2 million or Rp18 billion, once again, just in two weeks.
As reported by ABC pages, Nay start programming the world know when he first started creating web pages as he sat on the bench third grade. Seeing the extraordinary talent, his friends and asks him to make his own game.
Bubble Ball begins the journey of research Nay in a local library. There, he found a program called Ansca Monile's Corona SDK (Software Developer's Kit), which helped him to simplify the process of programming the game that he designed it.
During a month or more, which is now the CEO of Nay Nay Games, spent many hours each day to complete the program, comprising a total of more than 4,000 lines of program code. The total cost spent about U.S. $ 1,200-comes from the parents giving money Nay, to buy a Macintosh computer and some software.
Success with Bubble Ball, Nay reportedly is preparing another new game. What game, he still kept it a secret meeting.
2. Mark Bao
Another magical teenager is Mark Bao, now aged 18 years and still attend school in a high school in Boston, USA. In such a young age, already has 11 units Bao digital business. Three of them had succeeded he was selling.
Bao Avecora now serves as CEO, a company he described aims to "fundamentally change the way we communicate and facilitate the interconnection between all people and communications devices." This global network is planned to be he launched in 2013. In addition, he also has some other startup projects like Genevine, Supportbreeze, and Classleaf.
Not only that, held that "contribute back to society through the mechanism of profit is something very important to me", Bao established nonprofit organization, Genevine Foundation and The Center for Ethical Business.
"I move fast. I am ambitious. I am here to bring change," so Bao describes himself.
In an interview with juniorbiz.com, Bao says his goal is to amass a fortune of up to U.S. $ 10 billion or Rp90 trillion. Of that amount, 80 percent will he donated to nonprofit organizations in the field of research and humanitarian assistance. "As for the other 5 percent will be used to help startup companies to grow," said Bao.
Bao, a Chinese immigrant, began to be teknopreneur since he sat on the bench 5 th grade. Using Visual Basic 6.0 he wrote a simple application to schedule homework and help him write a paper. He then copied the program to a floppy disk and sell them to classmates.
The first startup he launched in his first year in high school. His name Debateware.com. This is the event management system for the organization's debate. Bao and his business partner was able to sell this program to an organization's biggest debate in the U.S..
3. Adam Horwitz
Richie Rich List will not complete without including the name of Adam Horwitz. As written juniorbiz.com, Horwitz digital adventure started when she was in junior high school class in Pacific Palisades, at the age of 15 years. When he makes a gossip blog like crazy about his school friends. The parents are alarmed by the impact, forcing him to close this blog.
Horwitz then make Urban Stomp. This website featuring various musical events and party locations around the region. Urban Stomp've managed to bring in 800 people at a party. For some reason, he decided to shut it down after operating a few weeks.
Horwitz is now running a company that aims to teach teenagers aged 15 and over to make money online. He launched Mobile and Cell Phone Monopoly Treasure, in which each has generated U.S. $ 100 thousand or about Rp900 million. In addition, he also is building a new platform, which he named Dude I Hate My Job. Everywhere, ABG was shot with a sleek sedan Audi A5, 2010.
In a wawancana with juniorbiz, Horwitz said the young business people are often confronted with obstacles in the form of stereotypes of society. "People at first did not believe in me. My friends are also always assume you can not do business at an early age," he said.
In fact, he said, the business began a young age has many advantages. One is not having to pay taxes because they still live with their parents.
"If you're a young entrepreneur and is trying to build a huge online business, do not ever think you can not make it happen," Horwitz told. "With the Internet, you can do almost anything.
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