If you ever said there was no business model for MySpace, time to start chomping on those words right about now. Ashley Qualls, age 17, the founder of the site Whateverlife.com (pictured) has a free MySpace layouts website that has seven million monthly visitors and does 60 million page views. Where does all that traffic lead in the current web world where eyeballs attract sponsor dollars?

DoshDosh (hat tip to Mom Gadget) writes:

Her first Adsense paycheck was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer.

DoshDosh picked up on the Fastcompany article that shares more details of young Ms. Qualls like she hails from Detroit, doesn’t have a driver’s license yet, the probate courts have ruled that neither her parents or her can manage her finances, dropped out of high school, has a lawyer and wants to become emancipated.

And she’s only 17?! Yikes, our oldest teen is her age and he still hasn’t gotten his first job (he’s looking). Hopefully somebody in Ms. Qualls’ financial camp is telling her to invest wisely. Sounds like a lot to juggle at her age.

Kudos to her entrepreneurial spirit.

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