Starting from the complaint Catherine Cook and her brother, David, regarding school graduation photo on the album, led to the idea of making social networking site worth millions of dollars.
Catherine then create a social networking site from a computer in his room, and within six years he already has 25 million users across the United States. Myyearbook.com is one of the 25 most visited sites in the country, and the firm Catherine worth 20 million dollars.
Catherine then create a social networking site from a computer in his room, and within six years he already has 25 million users across the United States. Myyearbook.com is one of the 25 most visited sites in the country, and the firm Catherine worth 20 million dollars.
His success exceeds the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. "Everything happened fast. One minute we get the idea, then we got a $ 250,000 investment. My brother Geoff already enjoying success with other sites and decided to invest in us," said Catherine (21), as quoted by the Daily Mail.
There are various features of the site which makes it more complex than up, at least the ability to choose the leaderboard popularity. "We have to draw each page by hand.
Then we found a team of developers in Mumbai, India. Very interesting, but we are still in high school. I do my school work all day, and then stay awake until 4 am in order to discuss with Indian developers.
"Catherine and David launched the site from their home in Skillman, New Jersey, April 2005. "My mother and father both electrical engineers, but we do all the work yourself. We promote the site at school, wearing T-shirts around campus weird. Furthermore, the site was started visiting members from schools across the country in November 2005, only a few months after launch.
"When we get one million member I feel very happy, but also so scared. Life changed as I had not imagined before." In 2006 Catherine's office to invest in New Hope, Pennsylvania. At the age of 16 years, Catherine has a new developer has 12 staff. "If you remember the past, I only get two hours of sleep a night. It's hard to manage school and work, but soon after I graduated from high school, and when business started to take off I realized even my personal life a mess," he said.
We began to explore business Myyearbook.com doubt many people who can rival MySpace, in fact he now has a quarter the number of visitors have MySpace and employees 100 people.
When talking about the causes of these sites successful, Catherine says, "Most of my friends really accept the idea that site. They are joined on the site and make suggestions." by:liputan6(DA / Ant / ARI)
