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Short lived stalker site shows bootstrap possibilities
Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on June 20, 2006
Short lived stalker site shows bootstrap possibilities
Wow. The short, eventful life of stalker dot-com SingleStat.us may demonstrate either the possibilities of real seat-of-the-pants bootstrap entrepreneurship, the fickleness of venture capitalism or both.

Thanks to Creative Weblogging editor Anita Campbell for e-mailing the initial link on this one.

Perhaps most interesting is that, in an interview with Valleywag, SingleStat.us creator David Weekly said both that he had cobbled the dot-com together in a weekend just for fun and that he had gotten interest from a venture capital group before MySpace finally shut him down.

This last part illustrates webpronews.com columnist Jason Lee Miller's question about what the brief success of SingleStat.us says about the "faddish" quality of e-commerce specifically and entrepreneurship in general.

Miller also quotes blog commenter Steve Macdonald's response to the initial TechCrunch post:

I've moved back into far more traditional territory...Just boring stuff like ensuring cargo gets where it is supposed to go on time. No VCs are looking at us. But guess what? We're profitable! Remember that word? We make a profit and we're seeing slow, steady growth as we gradually add customers who take their time to test our software carefully and ensure that it meets a genuine business need.



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