Teenage Entrepreneur Lights Up Internet
January 6, 2009 by Ewan
13 year old Scot does it better than most, says leading tech journalist.
Scott Campbell is a smart Scotsman. He’s just launched a social network for people in or fascinated by Scotland – ScotBlog.net. He’s set about promoting it and aiming for the high value publicity sites.
And he’s only 13.
Howls of anguish were to be found in the comment decrying the start-up as nothing more than a multi user blogging website, but then couldn’t that same argument be made of Facebook?
We say that the tool is not the important part of a start-up. It’s how you use the tool, and what you do to promote your use of the tool is important. ScotBlog is the perfect example of this, and I’ll put money on it now that this young chap is going to learn more about business and marketing in the next few months than any Scotvec educational module could.
At 13 I was busy writing a computer gaming magazine, on A4 paper, and spent three whole lunch breaks at school stapling them altogether. Oh for the tools that Campbell has. I suspect he is going to go far, and I hope that more teenagers decided that a start-up is a better bet than a paper round.
(Hat tip Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK).
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Wow, at 13 years old, I was dealing in mucky mags, I wish I had the same tools back then, good luck to him, in times like these we need more stories like this.
Yup, it’s not necessarily what he’s done but the fact he’s done something vaguely constructive! If nothing else it’s just great to see a teenager going against the popular image of teenagers these days and doing something that is a positive thing for community.
I launched Scotster, the photo sharing and social networking site for Scotland because, like Scott, noticed there was nothing to bring Scots around the world together. It’s good that more people are creating sites for Scotland!
Also, I think the media should report more on this kind of story; whether or not the product is good is beside the point, Scott is showing initiative.