Since childhood, I've associated computer science with geeky and socially inept little boys, and for rational reason: because all of the computer geeks I knew were in fact geeky and socially inept little boys! But as I mentioned in my previous post about computer camp, I've wanted to go into tech from an early age -- before the idea of entrepreneurship ever occurred to me. However, as I became less socially inept, I began associating myself with the non-geeks. The jocks! The cheerleaders!

People often ask me if I feel as if I'm being taken advantaged of, or if being a girl makes things more difficult. No and yes -- I don't feel as if guys are mean to girls in computer science. If anything, guys are more willing to help a cute girl debug her code for obvious reason. But is it more difficult? From a social standpoint, definitely. Most girls in tech are podcasters or videobloggers -- Veronica Belmont, Julia Allison, and Alana Taylor among them. They're all great people, amazing at what they do, but that leaves few girls who are hardcore geeks. There aren't many girls starting their own companies. It's almost expected that I go into community or marketing, but I've since decided to go against these societal expectations.

I'm now at a crossroads in my educational career because I need to decide my major. Do I major in computer science, economics, international relations, or what? As a friend of mine mentioned, what if I'm terrible at computer science or what if I'm terrible at economics? The educational path I choose will determine the people I associate with in my classes. The computer science program at Simon's Rock attracts the uber geeks, whereas the economics program attracts the more popular kids. Why does this matter so much? Because I see education as being more than what's learned in the classroom -- it's the independent projects that I would start with my classmates. It affects my social life, which matters more than you might think for girls. Regardless as to what major I choose, I'll plan on surrounding myself with both econ and comp sci people.

As time goes by, the negative image of computer science and geeks will fade away. With more "socially capable" individuals in computer science, people like myself will feel more inclined to choose a math or science related subject as a major. I met Leah Culver at a dinner in Amsterdam, and her story is inspiring. She went to school thinking that she'd go into art or graphic design, and left with a degree in computer science. She did what she felt passionate about, and others like myself will follow in a similar path. Just last week, I met a girl through my blog named Cassie Wallender, who also began college at age 16 and took up programming and business from an early age. In the coming few years, we'll hopefully see more and more girls flooding the halls of science departments!

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore at early college, Bard College at Simon's Rock.

She loves chatting with fellow students, readers, and entrepreneurs, so don't hesitate to email her or message her on AIM! Feel free to subscribe to her blog or stalk her twitter.

Over the past year, I've learned a lot about successful leaders and entrepreneurs. The remarkably successful ones aren't working 247 on their businesses because they were smart enough to recruit a brilliant team for both their personal and business lives. A fellow TEDster I met this weekend told me about ways he manages his life -- he recruits experts in all fields of knowledge to assist him with his financial life, his children, his home, his vacations, his appointments, his company's technology, his company's marketing, etc… To guide his decisions in life and business, he has what he calls a "board of life." In other words, a group of remarkable individuals who feel personally invested into his future.

Firstly, no entrepreneur should be expected to know everything about business, but s/he should be able to know enough in order to recruit help from remarkable individuals in their respective fields. And if the individual is anything short of remarkable, look for someone else. Remarkable entrepreneurs don't need to be baby geniuses, but they need to be able to network with the individuals who will influence their businesses for the better. If the entrepreneur manages to hire and manage a remarkable team, s/he will have more time to devote to a personal life.

While I ran my first (failed) company, I managed to do just that. I recruited incredibly smart techies to help manage all of the issues related to my dedicated server clients while I enjoyed time on the beaches of Puerto Rico. My team didn’t exist to assist ME -- their purpose was to serve the company, and my existence was to make sure that their ideals remained that way.

This unnamed TEDster proposed the idea of having a "board of life," which caters more to the individual entrepreneurs. This board should consist of accomplished entrepreneurs and experts who feel personally invested in one's future. They'll get you the connections you need, offer you limitless personal support, and encourage you to do amazing things. In a way, I see members on my board of life as being my aunts and uncles. While it takes time to build a relationship with them, you almost have an inherent instinct from the moment you meet them as to whether or not you can provide meaning to each other. They literally feel like family in that both you and your "mentor" would go out of the way to do anything for each other. I call them "mentors" because they're far more than mentors. The TEDster I met with made clear the distinction: while mentors are there to give you sound advice, members on your board of life have a family-like relationship to you.

The ideas of recruiting a dream team can also be applied to managing one's personal life. My parents employ multiple people fulltime to manage our family's finances, home, appointments, travel, etc… In fact, I'm the only person in my family who hasn't yet taken advantage of the ideas that I'm proposing to you as I write this. Why? Because I enjoy making my own appointments. I enjoy comparing the prices between a Jetblue and a Virgin flight. I prefer to email my blog readers than to have my publicist send generic replies. I still utilize my mom's accountant and secretary, but only because it makes more practical sense for me to do so. When it comes to emailing people and managing my own schedule, nobody can do it better than me.

In the end, you need to come to terms with the fact that you're not superman. You don't know everything and you don't have the experiences and perspectives of everyone on this planet. You're hopefully smart enough to realize this -- recruit the necessary help in whatever part of life you need. By surrounding yourself with accomplished people in their respective fields, you're more likely to see your own success.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore at early collegeBard College at Simon's Rock.

She loves chatting with fellow students, readers, and entrepreneurs, so don't hesitate to email her or message her on AIM! Feel free to subscribe to her blog or stalk her twitter.

I'm not sure if I believe in the saying, "all things happen for a reason." It seems as if people tend to say that in order to justify for a loss. However, it IS possible to justify for a loss by doing something about it. The time that you would have spent working on your now failed company can instead be used to learn about business, which in the long run will help you with a bigger and better company. While this seems to fit into the saying "all things happen for a reason," wouldn't that be somewhat misleading?

Instead, how about we think about a recent loss as a reason to do something else meaningful? Let's take Al Gore for example -- he lost the race to the White House. He could have sat like a couch potato doing nothing, but instead, he found himself a cause to invest himself into. If anything, his mental well being depended on his ability to find a cause for him to dive into. In this case, the better saying is, "losing the presidential race made Al Gore a better person because he did something that he couldn't otherwise do as the President." Without the burden of political bureaucracy, Al Gore has the capability to take on global warming in ways no President ever could. His failure didn't so much happen for a reason -- he instead took advantage of his failure because he didn't have a choice.

I'm against the idea of thinking of life as being self-guiding because it doesn't motivate individuals to take advantage of their loss. Instead, it provides temporary pain relief. If my mom died tomorrow from heart disease, I wouldn't say "all things happen for a reason." That would be careless and if anything, premature for me to say. Instead, I would probably invest myself into helping others with heart disease. I would invest my time, money, and maybe even my entrepreneurial ventures towards that cause. And only through the means of doing something would I be able to say "my mom's disease made the world a better place." It's a terrible thought for me to bring up, but it shows the mentality of taking a misfortune and having it act as a guiding force in one's life.

To be quite honest, my last company wasn't originally guided by my quest for leadership. I wasn't hungry for money. There was a cause in my personal life I felt committed to, and the profits of running a company could contribute to that. I decided to run a company because I felt that it would yield me the most return in the shortest amount of time. I decided to run a company because I felt driven by the idea of creating something out of nothing. They were simply means to achieve a goal, but without an end result in mind.

So the company I was working on died. As I've mentioned many times before, it was forced into selling because my team and I were limited on cash. To adults, I call it failure. To kids, it can be seen as an "ambitious effort." The company died, but I didn't think it was appropriate to label this failure as something that happened because "all things happen for a reason." That'd be stupid and un-jessica-mah-like. However, in the following few months, I was able to land myself in college. I devoted all of my time towards finding a way to skip two years of meaningless high school, which I wouldn't have been able to do while running a company. I took advantage of what otherwise would be opportunity cost. I devoted myself towards getting me into college because without that cause to strive towards, I wouldn't be able to cope.

In hindsight, it would be safe to say that if I hadn't sold out, I'd be stuck in high school. However, that was never my intention. My intention was to do whatever I possibly could while ignoring previous failures. With the examples I've listed above, maybe the concept of previous failure makes more sense. Maybe there's a reason why those who've failed find new success in the future. Just try to apply the above examples to your personal life and it might just guide your future in ways you've never thought of before.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore at early collegeBard College at Simon's Rock.

She loves chatting with fellow students, readers, and entrepreneurs, so don't hesitate to email her or message her on AIM! Feel free to subscribe to her blog or stalk her twitter.

Most of you have only met the superficial version of me. I've been thinking a lot about my personal brand in the recent weeks, and I've come to a few major decisions as to how I want people to perceive me. Through my blog, I have complete discrepancy as to how and what I write about myself. Until lately, it's been completely overdone. For some silly reason, half the people who have heard of me perceive me as a child prodigy. The other half either think I'm arrogant or don't care. The purpose of this blog post is to tell you that I'm more of the normal teenage girl than you probably think.

Firstly, I don't deserve the credibility that I have. I'm out there in the tech world and I'm sometimes mentioned on people's blogs. Big deal! I haven't sold a successful startup and I don't have a product that I've launched this year. Yet somehow, I get invited to speaking engagements and other fancy elitist groups. Instead, you should see me for and only for my enthusiasm and potential. I'm off to an early start, but in a few years, that won't matter. Nobody will care in 10 years that I went to college early and failed at a few startups when I was 16 years old. I guess I'm slightly worried that I've been spending too much time talking to you guys and not enough time doing something great. Until I find amazing success, none of you should have the right to call me smart.

Next, I much rather you guys view me as a child prodigy than as a whore. Sure, my personal branding has been overdone, but at least it was overdone in a somewhat positive direction. Unlike Paris Hilton, people have a slight clue as to what I want to do with my life. Smarts are sustainable, looks are not. As one of my friends said, "if you're going to be famous, at least have a business model." People associate my name to business and technology. As for Paris Hilton, well, people look at her as a hot girl with an empty brain. No matter how hard she tries to change her personal brand, people will be stuck in their old ways of thinking. So, if you overdo your personal branding, "do it with a business model" :)

Internet celebrity Julia Allison wrote on her Tumblr yesterday:

I’m in the midst of a transformation right now. Actually, it’s not so much an internal transformation (although there’s that, too) but a realignment - so my outside matches my inside, so the perception matches the reality.

The quote just comes to show that people don't understand who she is. They read about her in Valleywag, but they don't know how fun, enthusiastic, and smart she is in real life. I've been told so many times by my blog readers that I'm different from how they thought I'd be. Some thought that I'd be formal, proper, intelligent and well-spoken, whereas others thought I'd be a snotty-arrogant-uptight-child-prodigy-bitch. One reader suggested that I overdid my professional brand, whereas Julia blurred her personal and professional brands together.

In real life, I'm just an adventurous teenager. I like to do something called having fun. I have something called friends. I go to class, I do my homework, I play instruments, I play sports, and do all the things you'd expect a normal 17 year old kid to do. (minus the many fun business/tech trips I've been on). Sure, I'm in college, but that doesn't mean much about my personality. Instead, try to see through the fog: all of the random bloggers you stalk are real human beings and have lives outside of the internet. Their personal brand may be completely deceiving for all you know.

Like many girls, I've had that desire to have the spotlight on me. And I've gotten quite a lot of spotlight for a girl my age, but I've come to realize that it's nothing more than a distraction. I'm dedicating too much effort to building up my personal brand and not enough in a) leading a normal teenage life and b) working on doing something amazing, whether it be save the world or build a hot startup. As one of my friends Charlie mentioned, the most brilliant people he knows prefer to keep in the shadows. They don't have much of a personal brand, but their smarts and successes create the true credibility one needs to be known. I guess as of late, this idea has been much more appealing to me.

So what does all of this mean for you, me, and my future in blogging?

1) The blog lives on. I'll always continue to blog because I love you guys so much!

2) I've decided to cut wayy back on my conference going. I have many connections as it stands and I don't need to waste more time networking with 50 year olds.

3) You hopefully won't have to see me on Valleywag again. As I've mentioned in other posts, the influx of press gives you a temporary high.

4) It's soo easy to get drawn into the fun culture of Silicon Valley. It's so easy that you sometimes forget to create something of value.

So for now, I'll try to stay in the shadows. I have no problem speaking at conferences or doing interviews or whatever, but I'll remain honest and true to myself: I'm a kid who's yet to succeed in business.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup and the managing editor at Startupism.com, and Jessicamah.com. Big thanks to my friends Jacob Locke, Patricia Handschiegel, and Charlie O'Donnell for having helped me gather my thoughts on this.

It's an interesting question... I've had adults, mainly small business owners, ask me to help them setup websites, consult them on some business or marketing ideas, and they eventually come to ask me how much I charge. When I had a crappy dedicated server solutions company, I charged $65 because it was the industry standard. And I still do. About 50% of the time, the prospective client will react by saying something among the lines of,

"WHAT? $65/hour? For a 17 year old? That's outrageous!"

So I'm left not knowing what to say besides something among the lines of,

"Sorry, but if there's anything else I can help you with, or if you ever have some questions about business or websites, I'd be more than happy to help you out."

Which I guess can be interpreted as being nice, but in my mind, I'm thinking about how time cannot be substituted for money, especially if the project I'm working on is of no particular interest to me. Sometimes, I might even feel insulted if I have reason to believe that the person is talking to me because s/he thinks that my young age means that I'll charge less than industry standard. No matter what, I'll get some weird reaction from the person asking me how I justify my own self worth. Details below:

Life is full of priorities and I need to rank them accordingly. I have school, a startup, and quite possibly a social life. Side projects are probably on the bottom of my list if they provide me with no interest value. In everything I do, I need to ask myself the question of whether or not what I'm doing may provide me with some beneficial value years from now. If the answer is no, then the price paid for doing that something better be high. The justification for this, in my mind, is simple: Life is short, life is full of priorities, and I need to decide what to use my time on.

Next, the time it takes to decide on something: If it comes down to making a decision that costs me less than what I rate my time at, there's no point in deciding between expensive and cheap. For example, there's no point in me going bargain shopping for computer monitors if the difference between a Dell and a No-name-brand is under $65. I'll go with Dell, because I know it's at least trustworthy, and I don't have the time to investigate no name brand. The time saved can instead go towards working on my startup or networking with people, both of which can be valued at way more than the price difference between name brands.

Fact is, there's no step by step process that determines how much my time is worth. But when it comes to doing things in a company, the founders will be faced with decisions that may mean a compromise between time and money. Sometimes, just paying more than industry standards is worth the time saved that would normally be allocated towards bargain shopping.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, and Jessicamah.com. In her free time, she enjoys the prospect of being an underage angel investor.

Idea for the above blog post inspired by Joel on Software

I started thinking about my motivation for running a startup. Actually, I lied. My mom made me think about it. She thinks that I'm doing what I'm doing not for money, but rather the status and reputation for being a young entrepreneur. This goes back to me being an attention whore.

If I'm honest to myself about this, I'm going to have to admit that she's almost right. I guess I'm living more for the journey than I am for the end result. (The end result being a nice business exit with a lot of cash in the bank)

To young entrepreneurs, you're going to hear this a lot: Enjoy your experiences and cherish the present. It's great to have goals for the future, but don't get obsessed about it. I guess I'm slightly biased - I already had one nice exit with a decent sized bank account to back whatever new venture I want to start. My parents pay for my living expenses, so I don't have that to worry about.

It's pretty easy to ignore old fogies. I lost count of how many times I heard the above paragraph from an old fogie. (Old fogie is someone over the age of 25) But I began thinking about things differently when I spoke to my friend Greg. He went to college at age 14 and is now working on his own web 2.0 startup. Emmet Shear, the CTO at Justin.tv also told me the same. He went to college at age 14 or 16 then decided to slow down.

So what does this mean for entrepreneurs? I think it makes sense for everybody to think about their motives. What's driving your passion? Money, popularity, fun?

This goes the same for college students. I know so many pre-med students who don't really care about being doctors. They want money. They want to please their parents. But how is this going to make them happy in the long-run?

As for me, I plan on having a wicked awesome time in college, run a super profitable company, and have fun doing everything at the same time. And if I fail, whatever... I'll just try again, again, and again.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, SimonsRockers.com, and Jessicamah.com.

I've always thought about how teenagers are dieing for attention. Kids have aspirations to be movie stars and singers. Teenagers spend all of their time modding up their myspaces and facebooks. Web 2.0 geeks are doing publicity stunts, trying to get themselves onto valleywag, and some are doing the lifecasting thing. (Justin Kan, Justine Ezarik, ZoomrTV, etc...)

Everybody wants to feel important. Everybody has a different way of doing this. There are no true exceptions to this rule that I could think of. Let's look at the goth crowd. They brag about being able to slit their wrists everyday. But even that can be considered "being an attention whore" because it certainly gets attention!

Many people have multiple personas. I'm not sure if this is entirely accurate, but let's look at our good buddy Robert Scoble. He gets a LOT of attention from everywhere, but I'm sure that he acts differently around different people depending on the situation. Around his wife and son, he's probably much more low key. He probably takes the role of being a responsible father and husband. Cool. Now when he's walking out of the Apple store with the first sold iPhone at that store, he's going to come off as an attention whore. I don't blame him one little bit :)

And all of this attention is good. Bad press is good press. (to some extent) Robert (Guy) Kawasaki, a prominent angel investor and author of many good books, welcomes and encourages all bad press. Guy wants bloggers to tell readers about his stupid lame website, truemors.com . He doesn't care about the review! (or so he claims)

As for personal branding, I think being the right type of attention whore is important. Let's take a more accurate example of an attention whore - ME! For one, I have a blog. For two, I have a ustream. For three, I just act like an attention whore, period. I'll occasionally get emails from my blog readers telling me that I'm turning into an arrogant attention whore, and I tone it down a bit. This is the same with my friends.

I'll be honest - I act differently when I'm in the Bay Area. I try to be more polite and professional when I'm networking. This isn't to say that I do a really good job at it, but I'm not the same me that I am in college. When I'm in San Francisco, I pretend to know everybody and I pretend that everybody knows me. Whether or not this is true, I'll leave to you.

Back in college, I'm a tad different. Actually, I'm very different. I don't try to act professional, because I'm not. I'm an immature, supposedly down-to-earth, Abercrombie teenager college kid. When I'm with my friends, I pretend that my business doesn't exist. I keep my friends in college separate from my friends in San Francisco. For personal branding purposes, I'm going to keep my two personas separated from each other.

I hang out with a friend named Poncho. He walks around campus in nothing but a thong. If someone was to get an award for being the best attention whore on earth, Poncho would win. By being friends with an attention whore, I'm turning into one myself. When I hang out with attention whores in the web 2.0 scene, I'm turn more into an attention whore too.

Now all of this is fine, but it really screws with first impressions and expectations. I've had people read my blog, think of me as an arrogant attention whore, then email me only to think of me as a totally different person. Some people think I'm too cool to talk to them because I'm an attention whore. I hate that. Just as bad is when someone only wants to make friends with me because they label me as an attention whore. Now if I make friends with other attention whores, I know that we're all good to go.

There's so much more I want to write. I love you guys, but I really really want to go to lunch and be an attention whore around my college buddies. More to come...

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, SimonsRockers.com, and Jessicamah.com.

I'm already back in college! Only two weeks ago, I made the last minute decision to return to Simon's Rock College for a final semester to get my A.A. I'm now faced with the obvious challenge of balancing both academics and business.

I can't help but to think, how would things be different if I decided to stay in high school? Would I be working on another startup? Would I be interested in the tech scene in San Francisco? Would I be blogging? And if I think long and hard about it, the answer is I probably would not. If I decided not to go to Simon's Rock College, I'd be going to the Putney school in Vermont. Just try imagining me milking cows and playing piano in the middle of nowhere. My life would be so different from what it is now! I love music and the arts, but now that I'm a college kid, I just haven't had the time to do much with that kind of stuff.

All of this brings up the concept of influence. How my school, my peers, and my professors have influenced my life interests and goals. I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology last summer, and never would have thought about regaining interest in business for another few years. I was taking a course in making caricatures, but decided to switch to the course in business. All of the students were asked to write up a business plan. I had no idea what I was going to do, so I whipped out the business mind I had back in the 9th grade. I immediately thought about tech related ideas. Myspace and youtube were incredibly popular web 2.0 properties I had just begun using that year. My idea and business plan were pathetic, but this was when I started regaining interest in entrepreneurship. Everybody else in my class had no business mind whatsoever. They were amazing fashion designers, but couldn't run a business if their life depended on it! As for me, I sucked at fashion and couldn't design clothing if my life depended on it, but my professor saw me as a teen with great entrepreneurial potential.

Now here's where my thoughts become even more abstract. If I hadn't taken that course in business at the Fashion Institute of Technology, I probably wouldn't have regained interest in business and entrepreneurship so soon. I wouldn't have taken that business course if it hadn't been for my friend Hayley. And I met my friend Hayley while I was taking a course in designing urbanwear at the Fashion Institute of Technology. So if we look at my situation that way, my temporary interest in fashion is what brought me back into business last summer.

It was really weird to think about all of this. Many people ask me how I got into entrepreneurship, and I'm unable to provide a straight-forward answer. After writing a blog post about my experiences and potential life paths for the past year, I'm still utterly confused. But what I do know is that my interests have been heavily influenced by my peers and professors.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, SimonsRockers.com, and Jessicamah.com.

I'm still a kid, so my parents have complete say over what I do, where I go to school, and how much freedom I have. To the outside world, it seems as if I have complete freedom to do as I please. I mean, what parent would allow their 17 year old to go to San Francisco and work on entrepreneurial ventures and go wherever she wants without the permission of her parents? Very few.

My parents weren't always like this. I first flew out to visit the Bay Area in winter break of 07. I did this again in the spring. But then I really wanted to go back for the entire summer, and my mom wouldn't budge. She started to realize that my friends and colleagues were encouraging me to quit school in favor of my business. She realized that I was traveling all around the bay area and she hadn't a clue where I was going. She realized that I was going to all of these tech events, conferences, and parties, but she hadn't a clue if I was safe.

In other words, my mom lost control over me. She wanted to regain that control, so she told me that I wasn't going back to San Francisco. As always, I pulled off a maneuver to convince her that I should stay in San Francisco. (my incredibly persuasive stepdad helped too - I learned so much from him!)

So I signed up for courses at Berkeley. My mom didn't have a choice but to let me stay! I did want to take the courses, and this was the obvious reason why I chose U.C. Berkeley over NYU. (my original destination)

Parents like to know what you're doing at any given time. I told both of them that I keep a VERY active twitter, not to mention the blog I'm writing on as we speak. Both of them took a quick look, but don't seem to follow my writing. Poor them.

Over the past few months, I've met many "entrepreneur refugees." These are people who'll disown their parents in favor of starting a business or pursuing a career with or without a college degree in the Bay Area. Many of them haven't spoken to their parents in months. It's a shame, but there are many of them! Others are luckier in that they dropped out of school, but still have the love and support of their parents.

For me, I don't want to lose my parents! I want to please them and make them feel proud. And I like their financial support :) So until the end of day, I'll just have to continue persuading (or manipulating) them such that things happen my way.

If I were my own parent, I'd just lock me up in the basement. I'd feed me the bare minimum to keep me alive :) Let's just hope my parents aren't reading this.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, SimonsRockers.com, and Jessicamah.com.

Entrepreneurs work on their computers/laptops every single day. Some work 80 hours, 7 days a week. I personally do not. So I propose that all entrepreneurs cut off their laptops on Saturday and enjoy the great outdoors! No email checking, no IMing, no blog reading, no blogging, no nothing! Just a complete day to spend with close friends and significant others.

Just try it. It doesn't need to be Saturday, but for just one day a week, stay away from the computer and see what amazing things you end up doing instead. You're going to be tempted to turn on that piece of crap, but fight all temptations! And when you finally go a day without a computer, you'll realize what you've been missing out on all this time.

No, this idea was not thought up by me. My friend Christian Perry has been following this rule for months, and I luckily enough caught on. Having an iPhone helps though - it's the only exception to this rule :) And yes, I enjoy checking my email on my iPhone while I'm stuck in traffic or waiting on line for morning coffee.

Hmm... wait a sec... I'm blogging right now, but isn't it Saturday?

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She's currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, SimonsRockers.com, and Jessicamah.com.