I know a young guy (all of eighteen) who runs a ‘Showbiz Gossip‘ website. I won’t go into figures but he will probably make more money from his website within six months than he could in a full-time job. Based on advertising page impressions, he got 35,000 visitors yesterday alone.

But he’s eighteen. Bring on Ashley Qualls who is seventeen:

…her monthly audience is around 7 million, and revenue has grown from a couple of thousand bucks a month to as much as $70,000 - more than $1 million in less than two years.

Try explaining this to most people - your mum for instance - they just can’t comprehend.

And, because the rules are changing there is massive opportunity to those who just get on and do stuff, with very little up-front costs to hold them back. In fact, many of these “geeky” new businesses will start as hobbies.

As much as the corporate world use phrases like “think outside the box”, I am sure these teenagers aren’t even aware that any boxes exist. Watch and learn old timers!