G'day from Newcastle, Australia

[Mat]

G'day,

My name is Mathew Carpenter and like most on this forum, I am an entrepreneur. Instead of having a massive introduction written like a sales letter, I'll jot down a few key characteristics about myself and see if anyone else shares the same views:

• I spend over 8 hours a day on the computer
• I'm in my last year of high school
• I own Tisme - a website design and development business
• I'm extremely interested (and actively involved) in social media
• I'm indefinately suspended from eBay (oh do I have some horror stories!)
• I own over 25 developed websites and over 100 domain names

I love hearing about other young entrepreneurs success stories and ventures so please do not hesitate to contact me. You can view my contact information by visiting one of my websites here or see below:

Business Website: www.tisme.com.au
Personal Website: www.mathewcarpenter.com (blog to be)
Email: mat[at]zor.com.au
Twitter: www.twitter.com/matcarpenter
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mathewcarpenter
Digg: www.digg.com/users/matagascar

[aussietimbo]

Hey Mat,

Very interesting. You doing a lot in your final year, congrats!

I finished high school in 07.

Haha how did you get band from ebay?

[Brendan]

Hey Mat,

Welcome to AT, great to have you on board, we have a few web designer/developers here now, which is great.. how are you finding the market.. do you see it as saturated and hard to compete?

Would love to hear your ebay horror stories.. maybe start another thead?

[JamesGG]

Mate, that's a fantastic effort for anyone, let alone someone still in high school. Awesome stuff!

Some impressive stuff done already; would you like to share your plans and goals in moving forward...?

Also, I'd imagine that you'd have much the same frustration with formal education as I did, given the unrelated successes around it. How do you deal with that...?