Nick Bell
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| Born | 17 December 1983 Alnwick, Northumberland, England |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Net worth | [citation needed] |
Nick Bell (born 17 December 1983) is a British entrepreneur. He is known for setting up a group of websites during the dot com boom of the late nineties, and earning almost a million pounds (between 100,000 and 500,000 in cash) and stock from the sale of Teenfront.com at the age of 16. His later ventures included a sunbed and spray tanning company inside Tesco stores and an audiovisual equipment company. Bell attended The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.[citation needed]
The media friendly businessman is a regular on the UK speaker network encouraging young people to start up businesses.
[edit] Business activities
Bell formed Teenfront.com with Robbie Hodgkiss in 1998 at the age of 14, he later sold the business to Rools.com, a teenage payment solution provider.[citation needed] He went on to found numerous other (now non-existent) dot com startups including: Studentmax.com, SnapaJob.com, teen-chat.co.uk and brit-teen.co.uk.[citation needed]
In 2002 Nick Bell launched ZeroPlus a high growth audio visual technology business.[citation needed] Nick sold his shareholding in early 2006.[citation needed]
In late 2006 Nick founded Quick.tv, an online interactive video tool. The company completed seed financing in November 2007, raising £1.25m.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards
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- 2020 Vision: Tomorrow’s Stars – Spectator Business
- Young Guns 2008 – Growing Business Magazine (Shortlist)
- David Goldman Prize for Innovation 2004
- North East Business Executive of the Year competition, 2004 – Mr Bell won the Young Business Person of the Year title.
[edit] External links
- Quick.tv
- 2020 Vision: Tomorrow’s Stars Spectator Business
- Sunderland University
- The Guardian: Dot Com Story
- Creative Partnership Enterprise Campaign
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