LikeALittle (YC W11) Builds on Quick Growth of College Flirtation Site
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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.'
These 1 page press stories never do justice to the founders.
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...
Is it a "billion dollar" idea?
He's come back with Floxx now that he's graduated, though possibly slightly annoyed that LikeALittle has stolen his thunder.
However, they could potentially turn the traffic into something real in the campus dating space.
I'm not long, but it's a cool idea and a nicely executed site.