{"id":37552,"date":"2023-10-20T14:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/michael-jarocki-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:48","slug":"michael-jarocki-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/michael-jarocki-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jarocki &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-jarocki.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jarocki\" title=\"Michael Jarocki\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17763\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-jarocki.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jarocki\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-jarocki.jpg 90w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-jarocki-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Michael Jarocki <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Credic Card Finder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creditcardfinder.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Credit Card Finder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 21<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> NSW<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4299\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By his own admission, Michael Jarocki was bored by school. His ambitions flitted from becoming an actor, then professional snowboarder, followed by musician.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until a friend showed him an internet marketing forum that he realised he could find a satisfying career, as well as make plenty of money, via online.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much to his parent\u2019s dismay, Jarocki ditched plans to go to university and set himself the challenge of making $10 solely online using Google Adsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He initially struggled but he then got his big break with Credit Card Finder, a credit card comparison site founded by net entrepreneurs Frank Restuccia and Fred Schebesta.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The site is part of the Comparison Finder group, which includes Home Loan Finder and Personal Loan Finder.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heading up a business aged 18 didn\u2019t overawe Jarocki, who used his knowledge of online marketing to fuel the strong growth of the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the site now a key part of the group, and Jarocki forging a media presence on channels Seven, Nine and Ten, the future looks bright for business and entrepreneur alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents cringed at the fact I was ditching uni to start up online, but I\u2019m doing pretty well for myself so I guess I\u2019ve won in the end,\u201d Jarocki tells News.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Michael Jarocki Business name: Credit Card Finder Age: 21 State: NSW \u00a0 By his own admission, Michael Jarocki was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}