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- geekchic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+111Microsoft was an "internet start-up"?
- PatrickA, on 10/10/2007, -1/+70Her brother invested $250,000 a few days after she had the idea. Would you give $250k to your sister to create a website?
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+57You have to be young if you think Microsoft is an Internet startup.
- futureisours, on 10/10/2007, -1/+56sounds like her brother did all the work and the investing... not her. he should be interviewed.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54yeah these stories are stupid. She was only 17... yes but she had $250k to splash about and her brother's team did all the work.
A sort of riches to more riches story. - weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Secret of teens success:
Dream up idea for website.
Get older brother to invest $250,000 dollars to start it up.
LAME! - Vich, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20When you're twenty-something, you're no longer a teen...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20i think, i have found a site _WORSE_ than myspace...
- Monolith4, on 10/10/2007, -8/+26Dammit. I know it's petty of me to think this, but i cant help but be an angry little jealous brat when i see some teenager making millions while im still eating ramen.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17or stupid
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16MyYearbook is really pretty sucky. It's just another place where all the high school cliques can brag about their footballs and their girlfriends and the girlfriends can gossip and crap. All of which takes up bandwidth that other people could use to do constructive stuff in addition to download a gig or five of pr0n.
Bastards. - ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13What did that "teen" do again? Her bro paid, Indians programmed, she smiled for the camera...
They are just using her hotness to get diggs.
Buried as lame. - dajuggernaut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Step1: Create internet porn site
Step2: Charge $29.95/month
Step3: ... (use your imagination)
Step4: Profit!! - rsantosis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11The secret is a 30 something entrepreneur is using his sister as the face of his new start-up:
http://news.com.com/2008-1038-6202845.html?tag=tb - yellowsnowcone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12she had a leg up!!! ... if my brother gave me $250,000, I bet I could at least rake in $2,500 in revenue ...
- wackymacs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11CNet suck. What a lame interview. And god that website is awful (MyYearbook.com).
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Exactly what I was thinking. There would be a lot of "success" stories if people had a few grand to throw around. I'd like to hear about one where a person trying to make a house payment, car insurance, getting outta debt, pay the bills, and paying for daycare, while starting their site on the "SUPER SAVER BUNDLE" with the ISP for $9.99/mo.
- cfd339, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12I recall back in the mid 80's when I was starting to make decent money building white box XT's for people at about 40-50% profit on each; looked around at the growing competition in the "Computer Shopper" which was fairly new at the time and already thick as a phone book, and decided that PC's were going to quickly become commodity items like staplers, and that there was no way I was going to be able to compete in that market. I remember thinking that someone like "Bulldog" (they were a big advertiser of this kind of thing then) was going to assembly line them and make a business out of selling them at 4-5% and that would be it for me.
Around the same time another young guy (I think a couple years older) was also thinking the same way. He had the advantage of a business school education, available large sums of money, available top notch advice and help from business savy family, and I'm sure he was fairly bright on his own right as well. I didn't know him. His name was Michael Dell.
Now, did he just "Create" Dell computers? Sort of. A ton of cash helped. Good marketing people from outside helped. Advisors who knew how to manage all that money and marketing helped.
This kid had a great idea, a family with a ton of money available, and someone to set up and run things while cleverly leaving her the figurehead so they could all extol the virtues of their 17 year old founder. - ScottPictures, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Rich brother invests $250,000
Site is coded in India
What exactly did SHE do? - freddiemiles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7MyYearbook needs a lesson on web 2.0 cliche design (or maybe just a lesson in design). Yikes.
- DaleoftheUK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Since when were teens twenty-something in age?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Ya, and it says that her friends were the ones who come with the ideas for all the really popular features. It sounds like all she did was say "Let's make another social site!" and off they go.
- darlyn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+61) Never heard of that site
2) Looks even more ridiculous than myspace
3) This girl didn't do anything ... - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Only when you're hung over
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6yes you. not everyone.
- Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I wish I owned com.com
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5or both, which I'd wager is most of it.
- PueSi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Sounds just like digg users...
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6PR Stunt?
http://mashable.com/2007/07/12/myyearbook/ - Lixie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5When did "teens" become synonymous with "twenty-somethings"?
- zyko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The big brother who financed this and likely the brains behind it:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/school.html
http://www.essayedge.com/compinfo/executives.shtml - chrrie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4From the Dugg article:
Q: How much time do you spend working on MyYearbook?
Cook: Forty hours a week or more sometimes. In the summer, I work about 60 hours a week. During the school year, it ranges between 25 to 40 hours depending on the week.
From http://mashable.com/2007/07/12/myyearbook/ :
"However, a source who spoke to Catherine recently told Mashable that it’s more of a PR pitch: Catherine is a 4.0 honors student with little free time in between extra-curricular activities, he says, and knows little about the running of the site when questioned."
So... what is she doing 40 hours a week then other than bragging about not studying and almost losing credits? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You missed the better part:
????
Profit! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The bone threw them a chick?
- BristolMyLove, on 12/21/2008, -0/+4That site is so ugly. It must appeal the Myspace crowd.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3anyone else thinking
slow news day - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5www.com is better
- RaptorNv25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I agree. Buried.
- spurton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Note to self: Secret to internet success, $250,000 startup money...
- kitkatsavvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3bah.. i reckon if any company was lucky enuff to receive $250,000 to start off, then it would be totally successful!
i wondered how "far" she would have gotten without any money at all..ie like how most businesses are started..
spoilt brat - thomasb227, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yeah, this is a good idea + capital equals any number of successes out there. The site's not that great either. A lot of stolen apps with different names.
Probably shows the level of intelligence of teh digg mob. - sv650touring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I know a guy who makes a lot of comments just like yours. The other day he mentioned he hadn't gotten laid in years. I feigned surprise because he's ok when chicks aren't around.
- crawf061, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://xkcd.com/305/
can't let punctuation get too close to the url - alx1507, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Perfect example of why we in the web field use the term 'KISS'. Good idea for a website, just so busy and annoying to look at.
for those who don't know, KISS means 'keep it simple, stupid'. - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I agree that the 'grownup' stuff was probably decided by her older brother, but you have to admit the site wouldn't be as popular if she wasn't directly inputing what she and her classmates want in it. She also seems pretty smart, and maybe she's just pulling numbers out of her ass but increasing your traffic by 500% for one feature which was suggested by classmates is interesting.
It's not that the site is original, or a good idea for you or I, but it's what these little teeny boppers want, and that's a really prime advertising market, which is the only reason their site is making so much money. - phaed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2THAT'S CHEATING!!! WITH 250K ANYONE CAN START UP A CHEEZY WEBSITE
- ip916a4b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Spoiled bitch. She pretty much did nothing... Free capital startup, no programming experience, the only thing was drawing out templates for the ***** site?
- jjed824, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Step3: Invoke rule 34 (http://xkcd.com/305/)
- yellowsnowcone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2nope ... $2,500 ... best way to make a small fortune is to start with a big one
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1All you need is a new angle which will generate commercial quantity traffic.
Right place, right time, new idea. It does not matter if the programming is ***** or if the company runs at a loss. All it matters is membership and traffic. Traffic is advertising. A large corporation will see the commercial merit and buy the site.
Remember the pet rock idea. Remember turning the paper clip into a home. -
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