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Back in 1994 when I owned an ISP, and did some web consulting for a few Fortune 500 companies ( it was a lot easier back then ), I receive this call from a lady claiming to be a manager with the Dave Matthews Band... and immediatley told her that I'd never heard of them.
After hearing her story about this college band from Charlottesville, VA and how they were going to hit the 'big-time' - I proceeded to tell her that I was too busy, and wasn't interested in dontaing time to some 'unknowns', and wished the best of luck to her/them.
Guess the rest is history - though ironically, I still don't like their music, and feel much better off - though to this day it still seems like a big 'duh' in my life/business history.
Oh, it was a terrible business idea - but as things turned out, that would not have mattered.
)I receive this call from a lady claiming to be a manager with the Dave Matthews Band... and immediatley told her that I'd never heard of them.
This isn't web related but a similar story....A number of years ago my husband and I were celebrating our anniversary. One of our neighbors was a chef who had just moved to the U.S from Europe. He offered to make a special dinner for us at the resturant he worked at. We declined because the place was kind of expensive. So we went out for something like Chinese food instead.
A few years later, after we moved to another state, I was reading an article in a national magazine entitled the ten best chefs in America and our former neighbor was on the list. We felt like idiots for not taking him up on his special offer.
Losing several very good domain names.
Similar story here. I was using the net when Archy, Veronica, Jughead and Gopher were search tools. I knew it was going to be big, but I never realized the potential for me, individually.
Losing several very good domain names.
Arrrggghhh! Yes, that was the very biggest business mistake I ever made when it comes to the Internet. I passed up the golden opportunity in early 1995 in favor of pursuing my traditional career. If I would have known then what I know now, I most likely would not be involved in this discussion. ;)
Discussing our business strategy with a potential partner/investor, we mentioned we had several country name-related domains as part of a future plan to expand internationally. I noted that the domain with China in it was already taken, so we used PRC (People's Republic of China) instead, although we didn't think it was a strong as the China domain.
A few months later, I happened to check the domain to see when it was coming up for renewal. Lo and behold! The ownership had charged. The new registrant was one of the companies owned by the guy we talked to.
After several weeks of trying to get a hold of the guy, we finally tracked him down and he admitted that he bought the domain from the person who had it. He didn't mention the price, not discuss any plans for it.
We were pissed about it, but finally decided there was no sense crying about and started to wonder how we could work with him. We figured it was a ploy to get us to work with him, since he didn't have the online know-how to do what were doing.
Several months later we were talking to his assistant who confided that his businesses weren't doing very well (as part of the overall .com crash). We asked if she knew of any plans to develop the China-related domain, and she said it was far down on his priority list before the crash, and now he had no plans to renew the domain. So we offered to buy it at the regular renewal rate. Other than about $40 in notary fees, we were able to get the domain at cost.
We have no idea how much the guy paid to get the domain. But we assume it was a lot more than we paid him for it. Since all of his businesses crashed and burned, we can't help but feel good about his karma. :)
instead of
delete from records where id = 12345
For those of you non-SQL savvy, this deletes everything LESS than 12345 rather than one record. Basically over 12,000 member records. Was walkin' tall that day . . .
Thank goodness I have the common sense to run daily backups, but we did lose a few records that day.
Dang logs pointed right to me, too. Blah.
That's too funny - and a definite 'go figure'. :)
Apprently he tried copying all the systems file in to one folder.
didnt work there the next day or the next.....
