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Grab A Bunk In The Dot-Com Dorm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the are-the-amenities-enough dept.

airrage writes "According to this Washington Post article, the University of Maryland has created "dot com" like dorms complete will all the necessary executive perks: wood desks, leather chairs, wireless, whiteboards; all to encourage entrepreneurship. Apparently, it's working too. Twenty of the students have created their own start-up firms, and six are already generating revenue."

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  1. I think that sums it up... by still_sick · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    "Twenty of the students have created their own start-up firms, and six are already generating revenue."

    If six are generating revenue, then fourteen are a money-pit, no?

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    ...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
  2. FUNNIEST. ARTICLE. EVER. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I wouldn't trust "wannabe guru" CS majors with anything. All university proves is that you were too pussy to join the real world when you should have.

    1. Hire newly graduated CS students.
    2. Discover Solaris has been replaced with Linux development kernel and GNOME.
    3. Customers go elsewhere for professional services and products after meeting obnoxious, smelly and arrogant "techies".
    4. ???
    5. Profit.

  3. Ugh... by pVoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You wonder who came up with the idea... "Hey, I'll sell you 200k worth of dark teak desks... it'll make you revenue, I promise"

    Fucking assholes. I have no more sympathy left for any of the dot-com ass holes. They are the reason the economy is on it's knees right now... and some people still manage to find pride in it.

    FUCKERS.

  4. Vodka, lots of it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, i had a startup in the dorms my freshman year. It was called "I'll fix your computer for a bottle of cheap ass vodka" since i looked waaaay underage and couldn't even get close to faking my way into a bar.

  5. Selling DivX Movies and Mp3s? by bwindle2 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What are they doing, selling camcorder movies and Mp3s CDs?