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Ever-younger entrepreneurs. Internet, low costs lead to early-in-life startups

September 7, 2007 /

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The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

Zaid Farooqui cofounded Web design company Cyquester Technologies and hired an employee in India for $400 a month – when he was in the ninth grade.

Steven Bao sold a Facebook program to a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and started the Facebook Developers Meetups in Boston this summer, while reading "The Grapes of Wrath" for 10th grade honors English.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff

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