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Originally Posted by ///M Power,Apr 20 2005, 05:30 PM
Edit: Also...who are their 4 starting members? Emir (high school), Komodo (high school), Dan (spiff/high school), and EcianIce (high shcool). Thats their current status. Not going anywhere.
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Originally Posted by ///M Power,Apr 20 2005, 05:30 PM
A year ago and my point was that I don't think 4 highs chool (even young college students) have the time, dedication, and intellect to be able to sustain a intellectual and worthwhile forum. I by no means said I was capable. Nice try slcik.
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I appriciate your concern in our matters, but we seem to be doing quite well at this point. You, like so many others, have no faith in motivation, irregardless of the age.
I'm assuming you know little about me, so let me fill you in.
I'm 18 years old and currently running a web development company I founded. We have 8 part time local employees and we've completed dozens of projects. We've contracted web solutions for CompUSA, Chevron, Texaco, NetCentric Solutions, and many other respectable companies. Penguin Studios is legally incorporated in the state of GA. Let me remind you that at 18 years old, age did not stop me from having meetings with some of highest officials in CompUSA for the entire SouthEast, and successfully presenting my proposals to a Board with enough money and power to BUY most of the other companies I'm dealing with. We developed an automated online solution to facilitate the backend of the technical part of CompUSA, called GSS. We controlled all the data and information that flowed through the system, keeping all people informed via email when needed. For Chevron and Texaco we built a complex database backend to control and distribute gas prices to hundreds of stations in GA, in addition to handling their inventory in the stores with them and payroll of employees in the central office. The operation of this system is critical to the daily operations of Mountain Express Oil, an umbrella we were developing in direct contact with.
We're in the process of developing a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) program in-house that we plan on marketing publically in coming months to compete head-on with software suites offered by Siebel, SAP, Oracle, and SalesForce.... all multimillion, if not billion, dollar companies.
I'm the sole owner of this company and while I don't take much of the profit for my own salary (most is reinvested into corporate affairs), I still managed to pull enough out to purchase my own car for around $12k and do thousands of dollars worth of modding on it. And yes, let me remind you again I graduate high school in 4 weeks.
How do I have time for all this and school? I've developed software in house to automate our processes as well. I have a hand in all the daily affairs, but am not directly required for their operation. Our partners get project sign offs, our project managers hand them off to graphics artists, who hand interfaces off to programmers, etc... all tracked through an internal ticketing system with flow control. How do I manage all this while in school for 8 hours everyday? I had that problem originally and innovated a solution for it, which has been in production for almost a year now and is working great.
You blatently said above you didn't think United Bimmer would go anywhere because it was started by a bunch of high school kids.... and by saying that you obviously don't know me. When I start a project like this, I WILL be successful in it. I do not give up until I have accomplished what I aim to, by whatever means necessary. You think I can develop sites for multimillion dollar enterprises, but I can't develop a small online forum for car enthusiasts? You sir are either horribly mistaken about me, or just dumb.
United Bimmer will be successful, and that I promise you.