Just do it, says Yahoo application millionaire teen

Do you have an idea of ​​technology and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens: London? Said 17-year Nick D 'Aloysio, just do it, is the advice of the pupil of London, which is sold only intelligent application journalist has to Yahoo's million.The money of $ 30 and there, waiting for just the new moves smart, who can point to the list of supporters has application Early Summly includes Yoko Ono and Rupert Murdoch."If you have a good idea, or if you think that there is a gap in the market, just go out and launch because there are investors all over the world now looking for companies to invest in," he told Reuters in a telephone interview late on where Monday.The for sale , four months after the launch of Summly for the iPhone, have not been disclosed and D 'Aloysio, who is still studying for school exams through the collection of Yahoo and employee smaller session, he would say no. But he said technology blog AllThingsD Yahoo pay approximately $ 30 the Aloysio million.D he was the owner of the majority of Summly now will invest money from the sale, although old imposes legal restrictions for the time being on his arrival. "I am happy with this and work with the parents to go through this whole process" said.D he Aloysio, who lives in the London suburb prosperous at Wimbledon, and highlights the support of the family and the school, which gave him leave, but also, more importantly, the ideas that came with the financial backers.He excited dreamed first mobile program during a review of the history exam two years ago, and going to create a prototype of the application that news stories to cut trickles of readable text on small smartphone inspired screens.He, and said: frustrating experience of trawling through search and sites to find separate information when revising for test.Trimit was an early version of the application, which is supported by the algorithm boils down automatically Entries for about 400 characters. Injured the eye of the projects prospects, a venture capital firm owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, which put in $ 250,000.Attract this investment other celebrity supporters, including Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher, British Broadcaster Stephen Fry, the artist Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, and News Corp. Murdoch, the media mogul.That all added up to a maximum amount of publicity when it launched Summly in November 2012, but supporters brought more cash to just one of the components that have been downloaded close to a million times. "It was very exciting, (investors) found out about it once in 2012 of the original investment, Li Ka-shing, has gone public," said D 'Aloysio. "They all believe in this idea, but did not provide all the different experiences to help us out." Employer worked with content publishers about 250, said: such as News Corp Street Journal. People read summaries can easily click through to the full article, driving traffic to websites newspaper "A lot from joining Yahoo is that they have a lot of publishers, they have deals with the World Health Organization and now we can work with" D 'Aloysio taught said.He himself into a symbol at the age of 12 after being shot by Apple App Store, and the creation of many applications including Facemood, a service sentiment analysis that to determine the mood of Facebook users, and music discovery service SongStumblr.He has started levels - English school examinations final - in mathematics, physics and philosophy, and plans to continue his studies while he was also working at Yahoo offices in London. He said he intended to go to university to study humanities.Although created by the application of millions, D 'Aloysio says he is not a computer geek stereotype. "I love playing sports," he said. "I'm a bit of design enthusiasts, and like to spend time with my girlfriend and mates

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