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Teen plans a $100-million empire. Just $99-million left to go.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302771/Christian-Owens-schoolboy-entrepreneur-making-million-16.html

Teen plans a $100-million empire. Just $99-million left to go
The Daily Mail


He has vowed that he will not stop building the business he established only a year ago until it is worth £100million.
 
But hard-working Christian Owens can afford to pause for at least a moment’s celebration after making his first £1million aged just 16.
The schoolboy entrepreneur used his pocket money to fund his first venture, website Mac Box Bundle at just 14 – which has taken £700,000 since its launch in 2008.
He then launched advertising pay-per-click company ‘Branchr’ a year later and worked on the business after school and at weekends.
 
Branchr was a smash hit with internet sites; made a staggering £500,000 in its first year; and now counts betting site William Hill as a client. 
That is despite the fact that Christian is too young to place a bet there.
Social networking site MySpace has also benefited from his company’s services.
 
Christian, from Corby, Northamptonshire, currently employs eight staff – all adults – around the UK and America as sales and technical assistants, and plans to open two Branchr offices in the next year ...

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