A internet entrepreneur from Corby who runs a global website aged just 15 has been rewarded for his business acumen with a national accolade. Christian Owens set up his first website three years ago and now has a business offering pay-per-click advertising in 86 countries. He employs four people around the world and it is [...]
Megan Hurley is quite the force on her soccer team. She is taking acting classes at Off Off Broadway, an acting school for kids in Phoenix. She has even started her own business and clothing line. All of this, and she’s only 8 years old. About a year ago, Megan approached her dad Daniel with an [...]
At a time, when teens are glued to the computer screens playing games in the virtual world, there is a new breed of Indian Indian teens who are busy managing their own ventures in the real world. For example, Mohnish Nagpal runs a blog ‘Sensonize.com,’ through which he makes money online by advising people [...]
We just love stories like this at UKpreneur – keep them coming and do let us know about your venture. A high school freshman from Holland is making a name for himself in the cyber world. 14-year-old Zachary Collins sold his second Web site in less than a year to a company in California. [...]
At just 22, Amber Perez has already been a business owner for four years. In 2006, Perez started Girls Spa Parties, a mobile spa that caters to clients by traveling to their homes, businesses and other locations to provide salon and spa services including hair, makeup, pedicures and massages. With a team of 13 stylists, [...]
A YOUNG entrepreneur has launched a discount card that allows shoppers to cash in on deals at shops, restaurants, bars and even taxis in the North East. The Edge card is the brainchild of Wil Cheung, 29, who has already signed up 200 businesses in the UK, including Tiger Tiger, Blu Bambu nightclub and [...]
Some of cyberspace’s biggest websites and the computer industry’s most powerful companies were once nothing more than a few big dreams in a small garage. Now one Johnson City man is following the same garage-to-greatness approach made legendary by Hewlett-Packerd, Apple, and Google with his new dot com start up. News Channel 11 introduced [...]
“After a year studying medical engineering at the University of Bath, I felt quite unfulfilled, and decided to take a gap year to see what life was about. I travelled in South America, Turkey, Italy and Spain until I ran out of money, and then worked in bars, teaching English and driving quarrying machinery [...]
Not long after Catherine Cook arrived at her new high school aged 15, she was flipping through an old yearbook with Dave, her 16-year-old brother, when they spotted the name of a girl they both knew. Yet the yearbook picture looked nothing like her. In that moment an internet empire was born. You have [...]
Ryan Gindlesperger has spent years chasing high expectations he’s been at least partly responsible for setting. As a freshman at Bishop McCort High School in 1999, the Crushers hockey team won a state championship. Gindlesperger and his teammates spent the next three years chasing lofty expectations. He said he actually felt some disappointment in [...]