Profile: Alex Tew, founder of Millondollarhomepage.com

The 21-year-old student whose noticeboard website is raking in £500 an hour - quite a start to Freshers' Week.

Two months ago, Alex Tew was an ordinary 21-year old, "saddled with an overdraft" and facing three debt-ridden years at university, says The Guardian. Then he had an idea. One website, and a little publicity later, and he's richer to the tune of $200,000 and hopes to net at least $1m by the time he graduates. By anyone's reckoning, it's been quite a start to Freshers' Week.

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