The guests for the month were the founders of alivenotdead.com. Previously, they founded rottentomatoes.com and sold it for $10 million USD. It’s interesting to see and hear what they have to say. Not many dotcom companies survive beyond 2004. These guys not only survived but cash out in the end. It awesome by my account.
Part of the conversation was a lot of flash back on the rottentomatoes.com. After they got funded, the dot bomb came. They have to cut 21 staffs/friends to 14 then to 7. The agony and paind of asking your buddies to leave.
Patrick – co-founder of Alivenotdead.com
Now, alivenotdead.com – an online community for artists and fans. They have 12,000 artists from around the world in this community and I don’t remembered how many signup fans. It’s an interesting mesh up between artists and fans. They never disclosed whether they are making money or not but it’s does not matter to me.
Stephen – co-founder of alivenotdead.com
They were very candid talking about their adventure and we all know the journey is long and ardous. I felt…their current model will need a lot tweaking and adjusting in the years ahead. They have all the ingredients but somewhere,somehow it’s not clicking in bucks. I mean megabucks. I don’t know which dot is missing…somehow I felt some dots are missing…
Juju Chan – Miss Chinatown USA 2009 Miss People’s Choice Winner. You can check her out at the alivenotdead – jujuchan site
The guy on the left is Michael Chan, Juju , Patrick Lee and Jen.
Anyway….it was interesting night. Web Wednesday is getting bigger and there is an entry fee of $100Hkd. An interesting observation came to me, when an audience pay money to an event, everyone somehow stayed very quiet during the guest and the host were conversing. No murmurs at the corner or far back at the bar. Damn interesting….
Do I mind pay the $100Hkd? Not at all. It’s a good thing. Napoleon put a lot of effort into his event.
P.S. Jen – Thks for the group pix correction. Appreciate it.
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Great post on Web Wednesday! Hope to see you at more in the future.
It’s very nice meeting you at Web Wed last night
Hope to see you again in future events.
Note: my correct title should be Miss Chinatown USA 2009 Miss People’s Choice Winner
Jen,
Thks for dropping-by.
sam
Juju,
Thks for dropping and I hv corrected the title.
sam
Thanks for the interesting commentary and thanks for attending our event.
Stephen,
Thanks for stopping-by my blog.
sam