Nick Bell

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Nick Bell

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Born December 17, 1983 (1983-12-17) (age 24)
Flag of England Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Occupation Entrepreneur
Net worth ▲ £2.5 million (US$5 million)

Nick Bell (born December 17, 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[citation needed].

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

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[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.

In late 2006 Nick founded QuickTV, a company developing applications for the broadcast industry. The company completed Series A financing in November 2007, raising £1m.

[edit] Awards

  • 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] Television, film, and print

Productions of note:

"Change your life: Make a million" The Independent on Sunday

"Esther" BBC 2

"BBC Radio 5" Internet Expert, Young Entrepreneur, Youth View

"J17 Magazine" The Secret Millionaire

"Young Entrepreneurs" CNN

"Esther" BBC2

"BBC World News" Feature

"Young Entrepreneur: The Dot Com Kid" Financial Times

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