Meet 27-year-old self-taught web-designer Mihai-Cristian Micle
from Romania, who dropped out of college 7 years ago
to develop his immensely popular internet blog into a
multi-million-dollar international business, called Freshome.
People in Romania didn't know what a "blog" was back
when Mihai got started writing about beautiful homes,
yards, furniture, but his amateur website's traffic
convinced him there was an opportunity for a thriving
business discussing Interior Design on the internet.
(His website reportedly gets 4-million visits a month.)
Mihai gets quoted in such American magazines as Better
Homes & Gardens, and by architects and furniture makers
in the United States and abroad. Today he was featured
in a FORBES MAGAZINE article about entrepreneurship:
"The Romanian Entrepreneur Who Made Blogging Pay."
ALLAN CRUSE
27 APR 2014
UPDATE:
The ROMANIA-INSIDER online newspaper reported on 9 February 2016
that Mihai Cristian Micle has sold his web company Freshome.com
to the U.S. media group Soda.com for an undisclosed sum.
Although the value of his deal was not announced, Micle said he
got an offer which he could hardly refuse, according to start-up.ro.