SOMETIMES you come across stories about successful young entrepreneurs that seem like a standing rebuke to your own singular lack of creativity when younger.

At primary school, Sam Coley sold USB torches to his classmates. He launched an online auction site at 14, branched out at 15, and at 16 was earning up to £15,000. Now, still only 22, he is the "technical brains" behind TickX, an event ticket aggregation service so rich in potential that it has received £175,000 in funding, the lead investor being Ministry of Sound, the world's largest independent music company. Sam and his friend and co-founder, Steve Pearce, are already scenting the chance to expand TickX into Europe.

Two points need to be made here. Not everyone has it in him (or her) to become an entrepreneur. And the dizzying rise of the internet age, and the comprehensive ease with which the young feel at home in it, does sometimes feel like a closed book to people of more advanced years. Sam's remarkable selling skills do perhaps indicate the presence of something enviably special in his genes, but he deserves all the success he can get. TickX lists several Glasgow concerts tonight but the only name we recognised - fittingly, given our comfortable middle age and long-faded entrepreneurial spark - is that of Sir Cliff Richard. There's a moral there somewhere.