Re:Why the teenager next door has more sales than you
by ryanjshaw on Monday October 28, 2013 @06:59AM
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Some kids also just have 'it'. I'm the 30 year old and my girlfriend's brother is the 15 year old. He's been making money on the schoolground since long before high school. I didn't even start thinking sensibly about money until maybe a year ago.
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Re:Why the teenager next door has more sales than you
by ams6110 on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:36AM
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I think this is it. You hear the stories about the 15 year olds with successful internet businesses because it's pretty rare, but they are really not the norm at all. Most 15 year olds are just mindless consumers of the internet, in the form of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.
30 years ago the same kid would have worked out a way to have 10 neighborhood newspaper routes and subcontract the actual delivery work to other kids, keeping a commission.