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17 year old girl makes $70K/month online

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At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice--as long as the price tag wasn't more than $100,000--she responded, in effect, Whatever. :) "I don't even have my license yet," she says.

Ashley is evidence of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete, regardless of funding, location, size, or experience--and she's a reminder that ingenuity is ageless. She has taken in more than $1 million, thanks to a now-familiar Web-friendly business model. Her MySpace page layouts are available for the bargain price of...nothing. They're free for the taking. Her only significant source of revenue so far is advertising.

According to Google Analytics, Whateverlife attracts more than 7 million individuals and 60 million page views a month. That's a larger audience than the circulations of Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! magazines combined. Although Web-site rankings vary with the methodology, Quantcast, a popular source among advertisers, ranked Whateverlife.com a staggering No. 349 in mid-July out of more than 20 million sites. Among the sites in its rearview mirror: Britannica.com, AmericanIdol.com, FDA .gov, and CBS.com. And one more, which Ashley can't quite believe herself: "I'm ahead of Oprah!" (Oprah.com: No. 469.)

Full article at: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html (too long to post here)

why does it say going on 37?

That's pretty damn good, but I dont get why it says 17 going on 37 either

Just a figure of speech... she is mature is what they are saying.

Ashley is a Detroiter, too :)

Brad

Lol, dropped out of highschool. Without a strong foundation of education to build on, her upside is limited.

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep (Post 12990925)

Lol, dropped out of highschool. Without a strong foundation of education to build on, her upside is limited.

She is making 70k/mo, has been offered millions for her company and can go back to school in a few years if she wants to.

Very inspiring. I wish her all the best.

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Originally Posted by will76 (Post 12990941)

whatever.

great input :thumbsup

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep (Post 12990925)

Lol, dropped out of highschool. Without a strong foundation of education to build on, her upside is limited.

She has made more than 90% of people who graduate from college will make in thieir lifetime.

I dont think school should be on her priority list at the moment. Make the money, hire a financial advisor, she is set for life before her friends even start college.

let's see how long her site will last....
who knows maybe she'll become a washed up webmaster.

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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat (Post 12990950)

great input :thumbsup

it was humor based on the article, perhaps it went over your head ?

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Originally Posted by will76 (Post 12990941)

whatever.

:1orglaugh

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep (Post 12990925)

Lol, dropped out of highschool. Without a strong foundation of education to build on, her upside is limited.

:1orglaugh

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Originally Posted by will76 (Post 12990957)

it was humor based on the article, perhaps it went over your head ?

im multi-tasking

i dont pay attention to every single word in an article and even if I do, i dont remember it 15 minutes later

funny though that my custom title is 'whatever' as well :error

lookin at the site and some other stuff i really doubt it makes 70k a month

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Originally Posted by pornopete (Post 12991019)

her site brings my Antivirus....

Here too...

very impressive . she's a smart kid

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 12991020)

lookin at the site and some other stuff i really doubt it makes 70k a month

I agree. Maybe they're using "Enron math" to get those figures...

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 12991020)

lookin at the site and some other stuff i really doubt it makes 70k a month

it's 5,905 on alexa anyway...

what's wrong with the site? it doesn't bring my antivirus... :helpme

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Originally Posted by nettrust (Post 12991066)

it's 5,905 on alexa anyway...

what's wrong with the site? it doesn't bring my antivirus... :helpme

It's asking me to install active x..

The story was started by the marketing department at Myspace:1orglaugh

That's a really cool story, thanks for sharing. Forwarded to my little sister :)

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Originally Posted by SomeCreep (Post 12990925)

Lol, dropped out of highschool. Without a strong foundation of education to build on, her upside is limited.

Not so much. She dropped out of high school and is attending college:

More than once, she has returned, just for the day, hanging out in her French teacher's classroom. Ashley wonders if she'll be allowed to participate in graduation. By then, she may have already earned an associate's degree in design, at Henry Ford Community College.

Why bother with high school when you can go straight onto college?

I dropped out of high school because I was making $150,000 - $200,000 a month. The good old days :)

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Originally Posted by ztik (Post 12991288)

I dropped out of high school because I was making $150,000 - $200,000 a month. The good old days :)

lol, how the hell were you doing that?

and yeah, thats great for her but she shouldn't wait too long to sell because myspace isn't going to what it is forever.

thats awesome for her!