Robert Scoble has written a nice piece about the coming of age of Zooomr, an as-yet unfunded startup run by a single 20-year old. The site has been down due to upgrade woes primarily because they only have one set of servers, and Scoble points out that spending their first cash on insuring smooth upgrades would go a long way toward exuding professionalism. If graduate school has taught me anything, its just that: expect the unexpected, and spend the majority of your available resources preparing for smooth transitions. The rest is just writing code, and that’s easy.
May 28, 2007
May 26, 2007
An Introduction
For those of you who do not know me, I graduated from Colby College in 2005 with a double-major in Computer Science and Classical Civilizations, and went straight into graduate school at Tufts University in Computer Science. I just finished my Masters degree (specializing in Machine Learning) and decided to try my hand at entrepreneurship with my colleague Parker Morse.
The business plan for Common Kitchen, our next-generation food community, made finalist in the Tufts University 3rd Annual Business Plan Competition, and we are both about to move the project from nights and weekends to full-time. Another colleague, Audrey, has joined us as Community Manager, allowing Parker and I to focus on building a solid infrastructure for the site. We anticipate a public launch in late August 2007, but if you would like to become involved sooner, you may join our focus group or alpha testing corps at commonkitchen.com. In the long term, we plan on leveraging the success of this initial site by building other single-interest user communities in areas such as sports, music, film, and fitness.
