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http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2010/07/07/at-18-shes-already-on-her-third-business/

At 18, She's Already on Her Third Business
By Geoff Williams
AOL Small Business
 
Most teenagers spend their free time at the mall. Diane Keng is busy running her third business venture and signing $100,000 investment deals.
 
Keng, 18, is the co-founder ofMyWEBoo, a service that helps teenagers manage their online personas -- a normally frustrating task, as anyone with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and other social media accounts knows. If you want to make a status update or share photos or videoon one site and offer the same information on another site, you have to jump through the same hoops to get it up there, twice. MyWEBoo aims to make Internet use a little easier and more efficient.

The high school Keng just graduated from, located in Silicon Valley, encourages entrepreneurship. In fact, at least 10 of her classmates also started businesses before graduation -- and we're not talking kidswith lemonade stands or selling baseball cards on eBay.

We caught up with Keng during her last "free" summer, before things get really busy. This fall, she begins classes at Santa Clara University with a full-tuition scholarship -- while still running what she hopes will be Web 2.0's next big success story.

You're working on your third business. Your parents must be doing something right.

My parents have both been very supportive and encouraging. While my father has given me a lot of advice, in a way, my mom got me started on this. When I was a freshman in high school, my mom gave me $15 a week for an allowance, and [chuckling] I said, "I don't think that's fair." So my mom said, "Well, if you don't think it's fair, you should either get a job or find a way to make some money." And that got me thinking.
 
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Article: At 18, She's Already on Her Third Business

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Business and Entrepreneurship
Career and Life Skills

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Geoff Williams
AOL Online

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United States

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