Do you know the word entrepeneur? It's someone who starts their own business. And two guys, both still in high school, started this online mall called MallSelf. Mallself.com is essentially an online mall. It has links to more than 200 stores that have partnered with the Web site, including big name corporations like Apple, HBO, and the NFL, NBA, and NHL stores. If someone buys something at one of these stores through the Mallself website, the guys get 10% of that sale.
I read this article about them online in the Buffalo News Newspaper. The article was written by Colin Knoer, who himself is high school student. This is from the article:
When Sam Shine was 7 years old, he opened a lemonade stand on his Getzville street. Every day, from 9 to 6, he sat outside and sold lemonade. That summer, he made more than $600.
Sam and his friend Zach Schreiber, both seniors in high school, started this business a little over a year ago. They raised money from investors. $18,000 in all. They used that money to hire professionals to do the stuff they didn't themselves know how to do. Like html. Can you imagine having your own business at 17? Here is another paragraph from the story:
Both Sam and Zach say that they have had very few problems stemming from their age. “I find that people view it as a positive for a person my age and relative lack of experience in the real world to take on the task of starting a company,” Sam said. Of course, neither of them looks at themselves as teenagers from a business standpoint. “I’d like to be treated as an entrepreneur,” Sam said, “not as a 17-year-old entrepreneur.”
If you wanna read the whole article, go here. There is a picture of them. They're cute. They wear ties.
