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Campus Hook: a social directory for college students (2002)(scribd.com)
1 points by jlodwick 9mo ago|1 comments
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by jlodwick 9mo ago
Hello HN! Back in the early 2000s, my business partners and I launched a number of websites. Some were successful (CollegeHumor, Vimeo), others were not. This URL features a detailed, contemporaneous look at of one of the unsuccessful proje
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by jlodwick 7y ago
I like this comment!
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by jlodwick 7y ago
That's amazing! We started Campus Hook in 2002 (I think) but the timing was bad for a few reasons: 1. A few years early in terms of college student adoption of internet 2. A few years later in terms of founders' ages (we were seni
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by jlodwick 13y ago
> mindcrime 23 hours ago | link | parent True, but I know about the potential of companies, and failing to reach that potential is a form of failure. So you know all about the ultimate potential of every single company out there, form
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by jlodwick 13y ago
> You don't know me, my life, my past, my future, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my goals or a goddamned other thing about me. True, but I know about the potential of companies, and failing to reach that potential is a form of failure.
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by jlodwick 13y ago
> Pretty easy position to take once you've already earned your own "fuck you" money. True, though I certainly wish I'd known this position before I earned mine.
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by jlodwick 13y ago
Maybe it wasn't clear from the article, but I was talking about the acquisition of a company, not a product. Hackers, and SV people in general, tend not to distinguish between the two, as many "startup companies" are actually just attempts
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by jlodwick 13y ago
Yeah. My suggested title was "A Critique of Popular Ambition". In future articles I might ask for more input on the title.
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by jlodwick 13y ago
The existing businesses were nurtured and optimized reasonably well. I was lamenting the loss of the creative spirit that generated those two businesses in the first place -- the larger, more valuable core of the company.
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by jlodwick 13y ago
> Ten times out of ten, he'd take his buyout over again. How do you know that?
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by jlodwick 13y ago
> With your fat bank account, you can start a new, independent company. It takes years to build a great company. Running a great company was better than having the potential to start a new one.
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by jlodwick 14y ago
We chose not to support Firefox because we didn't want to use Flash or OGG Vorbis. But upon reading your comment I looked into it and apparently there is now limited FF support for H.264, which we will investigate. Thanks.
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by jlodwick 14y ago
Fine. But what advantage do you have over similar humans?