Also, interesting: "Justin.TV is Kan's second company. He and Shear founded Kiko, an online calendar program, during their senior year at Yale University... The pair landed start-up capital from Y Combinator but struggled when Google introduced a competing product. Kan and Shear bailed, selling Kiko on eBay for $258,000." Never thought to sell a company on eBay :).
I agree. It's quite odd the way young entrepreneurs are put on a pedestal. What magically changes when you turn 30?
Besides, if we want to be reminded of how hopeless we are and all the things we should've done by our age, all we need to do is use this handy website: http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/
While it was certainly an interesting list, it seems that they could have grouped all members of one company into one number rather than having each founder separate. Rather its only 17 companies, which kind of limits the interesting aspect of seeing young successful companies.
Justin I wanted to ask you -- when you first pursued the online calendar start-up, where you looking to sell the company or look at a large user base or were you just fulfilling something that you wish you had?
In other words, were you looking for commercialization and filling a niche or were you just playing around when you had nothing to do?
I've always wondered as a student myself if most tech startups get started with widespread use/commercialization in mind or if it's just a programmer who wanted to do something cool and realized that there was no site that offered it yet.
From what I heard, and this is how I feel too, most startups probably have profit in mind as motivation. Of course if it's potentially profitable then it'd probably be cool.
If I am not wrong, Justin.tv enables live streaming of current clips that are also stored for replayed streaming (but not on-demand in a pure sense where clips will play from the start: instead they are looping and not utilizing client storage).
