Aodhan Cullen

                          
      
                                           

Pictures above are Aodhan Cullen who is only 24 years old and runs a hugely popular web stats service called Statcounter.com. He founded StatCounter.com when he was just 16 years old.

Today his service is used by around 1.3 million webmasters and bloggers to track over 9 billion pageviews or hits a month.

Now 27, he is the CEO of the company. He has taken home the prize of Europe’s top Entrepreneur under the age of 25. The young StatCounter CEO edged out other leaders from companies such as JT International and Amsterdam’s Wakoopa. Statcounter made its free version better by increasing account log sizes to 500 from 100 previously.

At 24, that turned out to be a smart move for the young Irishman. Web analytics, a field which grew rapidly doing the dot-com boom and then fell out of favor, is “exploding again,” that’s a comment from Bill Gassman, a research director specializing in Web analytics at tech consultancy Gartner from IT field. It’s already a $400 million market, and analysts expect it to more than double in size by next year. Big players in the field, such as Omniture.com (OMTR), in Orem, Utah, are growing at more than 50% year over year.

As mentioned above, it was in 1999, at the “tender” age of 16, that Cullen launched the Dublin-based StatCounter, an online service that lets clients measure the number of hits they get on their Web sites, plus the geographical location of visitors, the pages people view, and the keywords they use to find a site. Still, Cullen’s company stood out for its strong growth. StatCounter currently has more than 1.5 million users and tracks more than 9 billion page views per month across its network of 2.2 million Web sites. Cullen won’t discuss revenues for the privately held company, but says he’s signing up 1,500 new members per day.

The StatCounter service is mostly free, supported by ads, and works remotely over the Internet rather than by being installed on client PCs. It has high-volume customers with more than 250,000 monthly page loads pay anywhere from $9 to $29 a month for StatCounter.

ACHIEVEMENT

 He has many awards like 2008 Internet Hero at the eircom Golden Spider, Businessweek- Young European Entrepreneur of the Year. It is no surprise that he continues to rake in one Entrepreneur award after the other. His mindset is that of an Entrepreneur, and as such, he talks eats, sleeps and walks like an Entrepreneur. He himself says in his words that he believe he was born an Entrepreneur!!