The Next Generation - 13 Year old raises 6.5m$ Venture Capital
Holy *’$@#! I just looked at slashdot for the first time today and I really can’t believe what I’m reading: A 13(!) year old sixth-grader from california just got 6.5 million dollars in venture capital for a company he co-founded and which he is said to have been running the last year or so in his garage.According to the slashdot article and the original article behind it the kid raised the first capital for his company by selling online game items. Now his company tries to fully commercialize this market and offers game publishers a platform enabling people to sell and buy online game stuff (like that kick ass wow sword you always wanted) directly in-game.Ok, we were already getting used to 18 year old dot com millionaires and other web 2.0 strangenesses, but this story now seems to set a new record. So I guess that all those college students wishing to start their own companies should hurry up just a little. The next generation of kindergarten enterpreneurs is already forming…
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