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Re:World's Youngest VC-Funded Entrepreneur? by Firehed on Sunday November 04, 2012 @06:37PM (#4741527)
A friend and I did about 30k in profit at age 15 in '02-'03, and it would have been way higher if we weren't having issues with merchant accounts. I doubt it would have gone into the millions, but easily 100k-200k.

Finding a market and executing on an opportunity isn't that difficult of a thing to do - the trick is finding one within your grasp. This was virtual goods, so it required almost no upfront capital and very little development and maintenance costs. It's no massively-scalable startup, but when your goal is just to create a profitable lifestyle business, it isn't actually that complicated.

Re:World's Youngest VC-Funded Entrepreneur? by asselinpaul on Sunday November 04, 2012 @07:10PM (#4741640)
what did you do?
Re:World's Youngest VC-Funded Entrepreneur? by Firehed on Sunday November 04, 2012 @09:32PM (#4742002)
Virtual goods for Diablo II.