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Kid Entrepreneurs Build iPhone App

DateThursday, July 9, 2009 at 9:02PM

By Alexandra Cheney

Owen Voorhees may seem to be an unlikely tech entrepreneur, because he's just 11. But for the past nine months, he climbed a mountain of self and parental doubt, overcame unfamiliar programming languages, and pored over college-level computer science textbooks--all to develop his own iPhone application. Last month, his app, MathTime, debuted in the App Store and quickly rose to No. 13 in the paid, educational apps section.

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