Nick D'Aloisio Quotes

• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

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  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

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  Motivation, Technology, Different

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• Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

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  Errors, Fearless, Trial And Error

  "Young Millionaire: Inside the Mind of Yahoo's Teen Sensation Nick D'Aloisio". Interview with Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.entrepreneur.com. March 24, 2014.

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• There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

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  Reading, Phones, Data

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

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  Years, Ideas, Google

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• I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

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  Team, Iphone, July

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• I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

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  Girlfriend, Design, Spending Time

  "Nick D’Aloisio, Yahoo’s Teen Millionaire: ‘If You Have A Good Idea.. Just Go Out And Launch It’" by Paul Sandle, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

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  Opportunity, Classic, Internet

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• The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.

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  Kids, Years, Able

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• My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

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  July, August, Levels

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• One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

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  Angel, Risk, Lucky

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

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  Want, Scales, Products

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