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I'm not sure what to count as my first business: At about age eight I did the lemonade stand thing, but quickly noticed that most people driving by my stand di
by NathanKP 15y ago
I'm not sure what to count as my first business:
At about age eight I did the lemonade stand thing, but quickly noticed that most people driving by my stand didn't purchase. So I took my lemonade operation mobile, in a red flyer wagon. By visiting a couple local parks I was able to sell easily 5x as much lemonade as I could staying in one place. It was a fun homeschooling project, as my parents gave me "investment money" and I had to keep track of my expenses and income and pay them back.
After that the next thing I would count as a startup would be Amazon Affiliate Script, when I was 19. It was basically a wrapper script for Amazon Affiliate which displayed products automatically based on page keywords and the visitors geographical location. It served nearly 10 million ads, and made about $500 dollars total, before Amazon adopted a similar feature and rendered my idea not very useful.
Currently, at age 21, I run BookFlavor (http://bookflavor.com http://bookflavor.com), a book search engine that generally makes $75-$100 a month. It's a cool side project that I show off and which gets me 2-3 job offers a month.
However, I don't have much time for other projects or even my own projects these days as I am working full time for StoryDesk (http://storydesk.com http://storydesk.com), a startup creating a web authoring tool that helps sales teams create their own iPad apps using simple drag and drop, WYSIWYG editing without writing a line of code.