Internet entrepreneurship to see the success of 17-Year-old girls (second)

Internet entrepreneurship to see the success of 17-Year-old girls (i)

CNET Science and Information Network August 24 International reported that Catherine Cook, who was 17 years old, co-founded Myyearbook.com two years ago and now has a revenue of millions of dollars a year.

Catherine Cook, 17 years old, wanted to qualify for the graduation yearbook in his first year of high school and set up a partnership with myyearbook.com. Less than two years ago, Cook said, the station now relies on advertising for millions of of dollars a year, according to comscore, the station has more than 3 million visitors per month (the station in 2006 through the venture capital to get 4.1 million dollars.) ）

Cook hopes to turn Myyearbook into the most popular teen online media company in the United States by next year (the site currently has a user-generated online magazine and a variety of topics to vote on, such as which seniors are the most handsome and so on), while on the one hand in the web business, She will also enter Georgetown University (Georgetown University) this fall to attend international business and marketing.

CNET reporter interviewed Cook himself about the future of truancy, fundraising and online publishing. (continued)

Besides Myyearbook, do you want to open another company in the future?

Cook: I have always wanted to be an entrepreneur, and not necessarily internet companies, but no matter how, Myyearbook will never be my only business, ten years later, I think I should not be able to do the general life of the office, I have become accustomed to being the boss, my own company is really very interesting.

have you ever been in the same stage with other young entrepreneurs at the Mashup 2007 convention, do you think you're any different from the other group of student bosses?

Cook: One of the things I said at the time, it was a laugh, and I was asked how to balance my schoolwork with my work, and I said, I don't really care about schoolwork, and the other respondents mostly say that they will sacrifice their jobs for their studies.

Whatever it is, I take myyearbook as a priority, such as this year, I have not prepared any one paragraph exam, final exam. In addition, the size of the Myyearbook is also relatively large, we have 30 employees, which is also different.

will your grades be affected?

Cook: Actually, I got 4.0 when I graduated. I don't think school schoolwork is that difficult. I would use a variety of ways to do several kinds of work at the same time, such as the third year of high school, I have never opened a government policy book, I have directly downloaded the Internet podcast audio books, put it on my ipod, use to work on the way to listen to the car.

How did you feel when you first raised your money for Myyearbook? Did you attend those meetings?

Cook: My brother Geoff, he is executive long, although I take the company as a priority, but I still have to find a way to finish high school. At the time I was in charge of PowerPoint for the business plan, the pressure was really great, it took a lot of time, I slept less than three hours a day, but then when I put it, the whole person felt so relaxed.

How many days are you absent from school? Did my parents support you when they received the school absence notice?

Cook: Mom would scold me every time she received a school absence notice, and I had to run to explain to the vice president that I was absent for a reason and that I should be asked to take a leave of absence. This is a bit annoying, because I often almost be deducted credits, but my mother is really good for me, she hoped that I should at least finish high school graduation.

I did a report that now teenagers are not using e-mail, you are the only one in the text to be interviewed also use e-mail, you think e-mail will be text messages and other communication mode to replace it?

Cook: No, e-mail can't be completely replaced, after all, e-mail is free, and you have to spend money to send text messages. I often write e-mails to my friends, and they all reply.

I think the real disappearance is the traditional mail, when I applied for college, I even forgot how to write an envelope address, I have to check to find out.

aren't all college admissions applications online?

Cook: Most of them are, except for Georgetown.

besides Myyearbook, what website will you be on? Do you have any entertainment?

Cook: I like gamehouse.com and I also join Facebook because I want to know what Georgetown College students are doing. I also like to watch blogs, I fixed reading include: Mashbie,techcrunch, and Gigaom.

I also like to finish Scooby-doo PSP game, in addition, as long as the sports basically I like.

The last thing a college admissions habit will ask: What do you think you will look like in 10 years?

Cook: I don't know, I think it's possible to work abroad, that's why I chose international business as my major. When I was a freshman, I didn't expect to run such a big company in my senior three, so everything was difficult.