<story><title>19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2013/03/27/the-anti-yahoo-wunderkind-19-year-old-flees-america-and-skips-college-to-bootstrap-a-real-startup-thats-profitable-in-bosnia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitcartel</author><text>The start-up scene is, in a way, kind of sad.&lt;p&gt;The tech media and mainstream press routinely salivate over stories of 13... 15... 17... and 19 year old whiz kid entrepreneurs.&lt;p&gt;Yet there was a time when teenagers and young adults wrote software and tinkered with hardware, sharing their creations with friends and peers, on a journey of computing discovery.&lt;p&gt;There was a time when &apos;Demo Day&apos; literally meant getting a group of friends together, travelling to a new city, and showing off your coding and artistic skills. The prizes were prestige and peer recognition. &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.assembly.org/1992&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://archive.assembly.org/1992&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, kids and teenagers are being schooled to hustle and score big money.  Where is the pure joy of discovery?  Something has been lost.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just wanted to add, it&apos;s amazing what you can do in just 4kb (4096 byte executable, no external data files).  This should inspire programmers of all ages.&lt;p&gt;2012 Fireflies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.assembly.org/2012/4k-intro/fireflies-by-blobtrox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://archive.assembly.org/2012/4k-intro/fireflies-by-blobt...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2009 Muon Baryon: &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.assembly.org/2009/4k-intro/muon-baryon-by-youth-uprising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://archive.assembly.org/2009/4k-intro/muon-baryon-by-you...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2013/03/27/the-anti-yahoo-wunderkind-19-year-old-flees-america-and-skips-college-to-bootstrap-a-real-startup-thats-profitable-in-bosnia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you&apos;re writing about a teenager doesn&apos;t mean you have to write like a teenager.</text></comment>