sidyadav
msg:324317 | 4:55 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Hotmail? Sid
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skunker
msg:324318 | 5:06 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
hotmail?
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trillianjedi
msg:324319 | 10:51 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Yes, hotmail:- | When Hotmail co-founders Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith approached the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson with their idea for a free email service in 1995, the firm praised the idea but wondered how they would attract members and build a company around it... |
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History of hotmail here:- [microsoft.com...] What about Google? Or slashdot? Or Yahoo!? To be honest, there's thousands of them. That's the beauty of the web - for every succesful website that's been created by an enterprise with a mega-budget, you'll find a succesful website that was created by Joe Average in his living room. TJ [edited by: trillianjedi at 11:25 am (utc) on Dec. 15, 2004]
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Kolb
msg:324320 | 11:21 am on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
eBay, offcourse.
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giggle
msg:324321 | 12:50 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Soccernet's another good example...
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Sanenet
msg:324322 | 12:55 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Friends reunited. Lastminute. And the list goes on... and on... God bless the net!
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DaveN
msg:324323 | 3:48 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
well I heard that a certain ex-admin from WebmasterWorld has just been formally offered a 7 figure sum for a portion of his Local network... DaveN
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gopi
msg:324324 | 5:35 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
A small list ordered by my appreciation :- Ebay ,Google, Yahoo, craiglist ,Friends reunited (UK), Amazon or Hotmail is not in the list because i dont think they are started as a hobby /pet project .
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skunker
msg:324325 | 5:51 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Awesome, here we go...that's what I am talking about. What about gamespot? ANyone know if that was a hobby site? I know CNET bought them out, whoever it was. I am seeing more and more game sites being bought my corps. Hint hint.
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sidyadav
msg:324326 | 10:05 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I think one of them could be Copernic as well, founded by the Bouchard brothers -- now acquired by Mamma.com. I guess there are heaps of others, but those which started of as hobbies, didn't do billions (like Yahoo! or Google; might in the future), but are now a full-time job/project may include Gigablast and FyberSearch? Sid
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mattglet
msg:324327 | 10:33 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I think broadcast.com might have been a hobby site... not 100% sure though. *Looked it up after the fact:
Cuban wanted to hear Indiana U. basketball games in Dallas (where he lives), so he set it up to work over the internet. $6 billion later...
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dregs33
msg:324328 | 10:38 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Ricardeo.de Ran their site with gossamer links software, the free version, bought by QXL for $60 million a few years back. QXL then went on to have a valuation of over £2 billion in 2000. Sold last month to its own management for £12 million. dregs
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agerhart
msg:324329 | 10:47 pm on Dec 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
[forbes.com...]
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gopi
msg:324330 | 2:34 am on Dec 16, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Good story agerhart! ...
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grelmar
msg:324331 | 3:15 am on Dec 16, 2004 (gmt 0) |
A guy I knew in high school, until he dropped out and became homeless, used to float around and couch surf. His main possession was a bunch of floppies. Built a program to "vulnerability test" servers, got caught, busted, and as a result sold the software to a major tech security company (that will remain nameless) for 12 million. He literaly went from homeless street punk to millionaire overnight. Then went on to found a computer security news/website. Sold it five years later for 30 million. Bright kid. Social graces of a fetid slug, but bright kid.
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