Through Twitter, I'm meeting some interesting people. Two new followers are @joeldrapper and @9miles. 

Joel Drapper is a 15-year old blogger and web designer in the UK, home-schooled. He comes from a family of 11 kids. Yes, you read that right, one shy of a dozen. I'm particularly impressed with his story about buying a laptop:

"I wanted to buy myself a laptop computer so I worked many hours washing
up at a hotel and chopping potatoes into chips for a chip shop. It was
poor pay and I was chopping in a small unheated shed, with gnats
everywhere and by the time I finished my 8 sacks of potatoes my jeans
and trainers were soaked through. But I saved up and finally bought my
own laptop."

9miles Media consists of a group of teens (ages 13-16) spread across the US who do graphic and web design. While their portfolio is still developing, they provide better content in their tweets than a lot of adults I follow. And it's clear that they are figuring out how to work as a virtual team. No small task, even for adults.

What does it all mean? There have always been young entrepreneurs. Now, the Internet not only provides a means for teens to make money with a computer, talent, and skills, but it also provides a vehicle for raising the visibility of these budding capitalists. I'm wondering what they'll be doing 10 years from now.

I also think this provides a perfect rebuttal to people who provide excuses to what they really want to do in life. Just get started, at whatever age you are.