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Grab A Bunk In The Dot-Com Dorm
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."
... have already started layoffs and are now filing for chapter 11.
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... had the same type of ideas.
Hey, if I make money, I keep paying the rent- No money, no rent.
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I am waiting for Co-Ed Porn Dorms. There would be lighting rigs, a queen sized bed, and hot bi-sexual co-eds who will do anything for tuition money.
So how many of them are running porn sites?
There's never enough when you have too little
Only 6 out of 20 are generating revenue? Sounds like a pretty realistic dot-com environment to me.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Two of these students have been seen driving BMWs with stickers saying: "I burned 20 M$ in VC financing and all I got was this lousy gas-guzzler"...
Ten other students declared personal bankruptcy after failing the IPOs of their start-up, citing the lousy performance of the financial market...
And two former CS professors have seen panhandling outside the University with carboard signs saying: "will teach Java programming for food".
So what else is new? =)
(as if giving someone a leather chair was going to transform him/her overnight into a PHB with a clue... Sheesh...)
This story should be in the it's funny: laugh section.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
I miss:
Don't you miss that ones too?
Yours, Martin
"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."
Actually, I think it was all the people who believed in the '3.) ???? 4.) Profit!!' business model and invested in it that caused the economic slowdown.
I went to an Ivy League business school, and I currently run my own business
OK, so you went to an ivy league business school, own a free porn site, AND a pet store?
And now your pet store knowledge taught you all of this?
-1 Troll.
I hate to be the one to tell you this but Penn State isn't Ivy League.
Of course it would be an even number 'generating revenue'.
Probably they teach students about inflating revenue by 'round tripping' in their freshman year these days!
Hey,
Wood desks? Leather chairs? What the fuck for?
What would you make tables out of?
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
Am I a shareholder if they get financial aid from the US gov or MD?
How about they just fork over a nice chair? I could use something like that.
To be considered for the Hinman program, students must have a 3.0 grade-point average ...
Umm, it's been my experience that the folks with the real drive have shitty GPA's, because they want to spend all their time and energy on their other projects. Perhaps they should say, "To be considered for the Hinman program, students may not have more than a 3.0 grade-point average." =)
This guy looks like he is the slacker of this group:
:-)
story here
When I rad "Dot-Com Dorm" first thing that popped into my mind was a dorm where they placed all the students destined to flunk out... my bad
I'm only paranoid because everyone is against me...
Monkeys have been known to put together a nice piece of work when given a typewriter. Doesn't change the fact that they're still monkeys.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
you own a free porn site, AND a pet store?
Actually, it's conceivable that both of those are part of the same business venture.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Once you change this aspect of the equation, the Ivy League business education suddenly makes all the sense in the world...
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Only worked for a while. But who would have anticipated Microsoft writing less buggy software then their competitors?
Lonely?
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I have a wooden desk AND a leather chair. Where's my startup? I want to get rich quick too!
Maybe I need a Dell with a LCD monitor...hmmm..
I wonder if that title was intentional humor or a fruedian slip, as in:
"Sleeping room? No problem. There is plenty of bunk, I mean bunks in the dot-com department."
Table-ized A.I.
I thought university was supposed to be for learning, playing, getting radicalized, pushing the boundaries, and other such similar things.
What?! You mean all this time I thought college was supposed to be about getting plastered, scoring with tons of chicks, and skipping class to catch up on sleep from that wild party the night before, and it wasn't?! Man, I have wasted these past 3 years!
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
Aww, man, I was gonna guess!
- "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
Was it your business?
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
They might try to sue the students for $5,000 because they are making a profit and want some of that too.
Hmmm, I have 5 mod pts, its time to metamod, and on top of that I have to meta-metamod? When do I get to read slashdot?
But 20 of 20 are generating a loss...