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Ever-younger entrepreneurs. Internet, low costs lead to early-in-life startups

September 7, 2007/

Zaid Farooqui cofounded Web design company Cyquester Technologies and hired an employee in India for $400 a month – when he was in the ninth grade.

Steven Bao sold a Facebook program to a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and started the Facebook Developers Meetups in Boston this summer, while reading "The Grapes of Wrath" for 10th grade honors English.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/09/07/ever_younger_entrepreneurs/

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