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		<title>Brusilovsky &#8211; Visionary or puppet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Kepes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an interview over on GigaOm with teen entrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky. Seems Daniel is the 15 year old founder and CEO of TeensInTech, a social media site for, not surprisingly given the name, teenagers. He&#8217;s got Loic Le&#8217;Muer and Robert Scoble on his board, and has picked up]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across an <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/06/27/meet-tech-teentrepreneur-daniel-brusilovsky/#comment-886117" target="_blank">interview</a> over on GigaOm with teen entrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky. Seems Daniel is the 15 year old founder and CEO of <a href="http://teensintech.com/" target="_blank">TeensInTech</a>, a social media site for, not surprisingly given the name, teenagers. He&#8217;s got <a href="http://loiclemeur.com/" target="_blank">Loic Le&#8217;Muer</a> and <a href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank">Robert Scoble</a> on his board, and has picked up a plum role as evangeliser for Qik.</p>
<p>Check out the video below, I came away thinking that Daniel is a nice guy, but I was also a little uncomfortable &#8211; I get a bit of a sense that Daniel is being manipulated rather than helped by his apparent mentors. He spoke all the right start-up words, but his patter seemed a little scripted to me.</p>
<p>I think the concept of a teen entrepreneur is great, but I wonder if Robert and Loic would be anywhere near him if he weren&#8217;t a teen? I can&#8217;t help but think that TeensInTech is a concept not unlike iYomu (Diversity coverage <a href="http://diversity.net.nz/an-iyomu-epilogue/2008/06/27/" target="_blank">here</a>) &#8211; which never would have got backing from anyone actually in the know about Web 2.0.</p>
<p>What do others think?</p>
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