Given how tough entrepreneurship may be, it’s all the time intriguing to listen to about children putting out on their very own. It’s fairly uncommon for teenage entrepreneurs to thrive straight away. Their early ventures are inclined to serve extra as sources of expertise and skill-building than as bottom-line success tales. A noteworthy exception to this rule, nonetheless, is 17 yr outdated Daniel Brusilovsky. Regardless of his younger age, Brusilovsky has already established himself as a author for TechCrunch and a two-time startup founder. Whereas his friends are partying and tackling the conventional challenges of adolescence, Daniel is making a reputation for himself as a respectable Silicon Valley businessman with a vibrant future within the tech world.
Immediately, Grasshopper examines the rise, ventures and younger profession of Daniel Brusilovsky.
The Early Days & Teenagers in Tech Networks
Like many younger entrepreneurs, Daniel was impressed early on by a profitable determine whom he idolized and strove to emulate. In his case, it was podcasting trailblazer and This WEEK in TECH mastermind Leo Laporte. As Brusilovsky revealed in an interview with PersonalBrandingBlog.com, Laporte’s partaking tech-related podcasts motivated him to discover extra of what social media and the “Internet 2.0″ panorama needed to provide. Daniel was little doubt inspired by a number of face-to-face conferences with Laporte, and the 2 are pictured above at an business convention. Earlier than lengthy, he started working his personal podcast in February 2007 referred to as Apple Universe. Immediately, Apple Universe stays some of the standard Apple-themed podcasts on the internet.
After dabbling in web sites like Fb, Twitter and MySpace and finding out know-how startups generally, Daniel began his first firm: Teenagers in Tech Networks.
Based in February 2008 (when Daniel was simply 15), Teenagers in Tech Networks was envisioned as a means for different younger tech minds to publish their very own content material and collaborate with others. The corporate’s flagship providing is Teenagers in Tech, a “media platform and group for youngsters to submit their media content material on-line.” Underneath Brusilovsky’s management, the corporate acquired the competing Youth Bloggers Community in March 2009. By July 2009, the community had grown to 3 web sites and over 1,000 customers. Moreover, Teenagers in Tech Networks sponsors the annual Teenagers in Tech Convention, the place up and coming teen founders can community and swap concepts. Daniel served as CEO of Teenagers in Tech till April 2010, when he amicably stepped down to move up his newest enterprise.
TechCrunch & iPad Case Finder
In June 2009 (whereas nonetheless working Teenagers in Tech Networks), Daniel Brusilovsky revealed on his weblog that he was becoming a member of TechCrunch as a blogger and enterprise improvement strategist. As Daniel defined, he had already been working from TechCrunch’s Palo Alto workplace on Teenagers in Tech in addition to Qik, a video startup for whom he served as a Particular Tasks Workforce Chief. Whereas Daniel described his time at TechCrunch as “plenty of enjoyable” and one thing he had lengthy needed to do, it seems that Michael Arrington may need some regrets about bringing Brusilovsky aboard. On February 5 2010, VentureBeat reported that Daniel had been fired from his internship amidst allegations that he requested a Macbook Air from a startup who needed a TechCrunch weblog submit written about them.
To his credit score, Daniel claims that he neither obtained the Macbook nor wrote the submit in query. Nonetheless, he has vowed to be taught from the payola scandal and transfer ahead to the “subsequent studying stage.” In Might 2010, he based iPad Case Finder, an internet service that provides hi-resolution images, descriptions and evaluations of iPad instances and strives to search out iPad homeowners the precise case for them. In accordance with the corporate web site, Brusilovsky was “overwhelmed by the suggestions and response to the launch of iPad Case Finder” and case makers appear desperate to get their merchandise featured on the web site. With the training experiences of Teen in Tech Networks and his up and down tenure at TechCrunch behind him, it stays to be seen how far iPad Case Finder will go.
Daniel’s Recommendation For Aspiring Younger Entrepreneurs
In his interview with PersonalBrandingBlog.com, Brusilovsky was requested what recommendation he would provide to different younger entrepreneurs with excessive aspirations. His solutions had been:
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Do not surrender
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Innovate
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Persistance
Daniel re-affirmed the significance of those qualities in one other interview, this one with Beatweek.com. When requested how he manages to provide equally excessive focus to highschool and entrepreneurship, Brusilovsky replied:
“I believe one of the simplest ways that I’ve discovered to juggle all of my work and college is locate my priorities, and simply go together with it. I’ve had quite a few occasions the place all I’ve needed to do after college is go to my laptop computer, and work, however I’ve needed to do homework as an alternative which is primary.”
One other indicator of how vital persistence has been to Daniel’s success is the truth that, as Y Combinator states, he “doesn’t actually have any technical background.” Somewhat, Daniel broke into the tech world solely on the power of his personal curiosity, experiments and initiatives with different founders younger and outdated.
Holding Tabs
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