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Upcomming for Yahoo

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5 Oct 2005

I’ve been looking for the next interesting project, and I’m bouncing back and forth between starting my own thing and joining someone else’s already-started cool thing. One of the ideas in the back of my head for my own thing was an events and invites service full of features to make it easy for people to connect with each other and the things they love.

Two things put that idea to rest. One was that Andy already has most of that done well with Upcoming.org. Second was that “build something cool and get acquired by Yahoo” isn’t a viable business strategy. Turns out I was right on the first count and wrong on the second. Congrats to Andy and team.

Comments

Iceman
December 22, 2005 11:52 AM

I guess Upcoming.org will soon be part of yahoo 360 as well :).

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