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LikeALittle (YC W11) Builds on Quick Growth of College Flirtation Site

38 pointsby turoczyabout 14 years ago

7 comments

jmtameabout 14 years ago
LikeALittle had 20 million page views in their first 6 weeks (<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/</a>)<p>Also, really cool story about Evan from his childhood, from Startups Open Sourced: 'When I was 16 or 17 I convinced my parents to give me $10,000 to invest for them; two weeks later I lost $8,000 of it. I put it in all these ridiculously risky stocks. I was really confident, lost 80% of it, and was at $2,000. For the next few months, every week my dad would say, “So how is the portfolio doing?” and I would say, “Oh, good, very good,” and I was totally lost and didn’t know what to do but was determined to figure it out. I studied the market relentlessly to try and figure out an algorithm to gain money back; I got back up to $10,000 within the year so finally, I could tell my dad, “yeah, we’re at $11,000, we’re good, we have a 10% return so far.” So, I didn’t tell them that I actually lost most of it, initially, but that experience ended up teaching me so much that I actually took the $10K to about $200,000, over the next couple of years.'<p>These 1 page press stories never do justice to the founders.
plusbryanabout 14 years ago
I'm just seeing a lot of lonely-sounding dudes. A missed-connection site without the womenfolk isn't likely to have much staying power.
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bertolliabout 14 years ago
Yeah, Floxx.com is the new incarnation of FitFinder - without being glibb about LikeALittle's success, they seem to skirt the issue of how many users they actually have...<p>Not to mention that Floxx, as FitFinder did, does have a lot of female (well, or gay...) users - this will doubtless keep the guys interested for longer...
martinshenabout 14 years ago
This site kind of reminds me of fitfinder which got shut down at UK universities.
newchimedesabout 14 years ago
Alright, someone smarter than is going to have to explain the popularity of this site... I checked it out real briefly and didn't get the allure. Is it just like the misconnections section on cragislist...only this is for a specific college campus? I thought there was also a UK company doing something similar as well...<p>Is it a "billion dollar" idea?
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anethabout 14 years ago
This site seems like a curiosity to me, and Alexa would agree.<p>However, they could potentially turn the traffic into something real in the campus dating space.<p>I'm not long, but it's a cool idea and a nicely executed site.
collegeportalmeabout 14 years ago
My opinion is that this is not web 2.0 at all. The moment you start selling anything on this site, i have a feeling these college kids are going to turn their heads away. It will be only a matter of time before horror stories of stalking sprout up!