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Ashley Qualls-19-year-old self-made millionaire.

Entrepreneurs, Profiles - Posted: April 7, 2009

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Story of how Ashley Qualls (born July 1990)from Lincoln Park, Michigan, started a website called whateverlife.com, designed to provide free Myspace layouts and HTML tutorials for people in her age demographic, and supported entirely by advertising revenue.

The website now receives several times more traffic than circulations for popular teen magazines Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! combined.

In 2006 she turned down an offer to acquire the company for 1.5 million dollars (1,220,000 euros) and her choice of any car.

In September 2006 she paid cash for a $250,000 home in a fenced-off subdivision in the community of Southgate.

The basement of the home is her office. In addition to employing her mother, she employs friends from school.
I hope you are all inspired in some way to turn your ideas into success.

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