TheNextWeb2008 Update: A 17 year old entrepreneur

Written on March 21, 2008 – 6:28 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

In only 12 days The Next Web Conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will post short daily updates about speakers, initiatives and events here.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college AND one of our keynote speakers next week.

She is the editor of Startupism.com and the co-founder of Shockapps.com. As of recently, she became a TEDster. Her blog details her adventurous journey through school and entrepreneurship.

She ran a successful hosting business when she was 13 and now that she’s 17 year old she’s planning to start ShockApps.com and retire at age 25 as a millionaire. She keeps a personal blog over at JessicaMah.com

Here is an interview with Jessica at SXSW 08 with Julia Allison:

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5 comments/trackbacks to “TheNextWeb2008 Update: A 17 year old entrepreneur”

Aug 5, 2008: Sorry Daniel Brusilovsky, teenage charm isn’t here to stay
[...] experienced the same when we posted the announcement about Jessica Mah coming to Amsterdam: She is 17, ok, and made high school with 15 years. 600 people [...]

By Drivingsouth on Mar 21, 2008

Waste of time in my opinion. It may raise some rage-driven comments but we live in a free world after all.

She is 17, ok, and made high school with 15(?). 600 people read her blog, and dices will be thrown to see if someone will be talking about her in 2 years time. She his not a great speaker!

One thing against my opinion though: she wants to be rich by 25 and i can try only to be before 30. But then again, that’s not a reason for a speech is it?

My nephew turned 17 today and talks about technology, startups, his apps, …, all the time but that doesn’t make him a conference speaker.

MHO

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Mar 22, 2008

@Drivingsouth can you please have your nephew contact us. We would love to have him as a speaker too…

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By Doron on Mar 25, 2008

i’m not very impressed either. especially the term “serial” entrepreneur seems a bit overrated.

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By Andrew J Scott on Apr 2, 2008

Well if that interview is anything to go by (which I chose to skip at SXSW) then I’m not holding my breath. She doesnt even talk about her blog/company until the 2 minute mark. She doesnt talk about her current startups until the last 60 seconds.

While its cool that she started her first company at 15 (same time as me) she doesn’t seem to have much interesting to say on the world of Web 2.0 and beyond. Perhaps this interview wasn’t focused on the Internet and was focused on her.

I can’t help feel its partially because she is one of few high profile females in this male dominated business. However, I’ll wait and see what she has to say before I draw the long knives out … maybe she’ll amaze us all.

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