Nick Bell

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Nick Bell (born December, 1983 in Alnwick, Northumberland) is one of UK's leading young entrepreneurs. He was 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.

The media friendly businessman is a regular on the UK speaker network encouraging young people to startup businesses.

[edit] Business exploits

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.

He went on to found numerous other dot com startups including: Studentmax.com, SnapaJob.com, teen-chat.co.uk and brit-teen.co.uk.

In 2002 Nick Bell launched ZeroPlus UK a high growth audio visual technology business. Nick sold his shareholding in early 2006.

Nick is now believed to be concentrating on a media business.