Grab A Bunk In The Dot-Com Dorm

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Grab A Bunk In The Dot-Com Dorm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @06:24AM 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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3 of the 6... by SimplexO · 2002-10-30 06:26 · Score: 5, Funny

... have already started layoffs and are now filing for chapter 11.

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1. Re:3 of the 6... by Daniel+Dvorkin · 2002-10-30 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yep. In a couple of years, the university can start providing "dot-bomb cardboard box under the bridge" dorms to complete the students' learning experience.
  
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2. Re:3 of the 6... by unicron · 2002-10-30 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And they can have teachers promise "A's" all semester and then flunk them at the last second, just to teach them all about venture capatalists.
  
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3. Re:3 of the 6... by ticklemeozmo · 2002-10-30 06:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How may of the 6 that have posted profits have lied about their bookkeeping? :)
  
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Now if only my landlord... by TibbonZero · 2002-10-30 06:27 · Score: 3, Funny

... had the same type of ideas.
Hey, if I make money, I keep paying the rent- No money, no rent.

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Eh... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-30 06:27 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Encouraging pr0n? by FaasNat · 2002-10-30 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny

So how many of them are running porn sites?

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1. Re:Encouraging pr0n? by unicron · 2002-10-30 06:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  6, man, didn't you read it?
  
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Good success rate they have there by User+956 · 2002-10-30 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Only 6 out of 20 are generating revenue? Sounds like a pretty realistic dot-com environment to me.

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1. Re:Good success rate they have there by Loki_1929 · 2002-10-30 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  " Only 6 out of 20 are generating revenue?"
  
  Those 6 probably sold the furniture on eBay.
  
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In other news today... by Noryungi · 2002-10-30 06:31 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Some item missing by mseeger · 2002-10-30 06:36 · Score: 5, Funny
complete will all the necessary executive perks: wood desks, leather chairs, wireless, whiteboards
I miss:
- A lawyer: if the SEC finds out that the revenue comes from a swapping deal with the guy next desk.
- An creative accountant: to show you how to make swap deals.
- A VC to fall for your schemes.
- A Prosche dealer who gives you a car for company shares.
Don't you miss that ones too?
Yours, Martin
Re:Ugh... by Anonvmous+Coward · 2002-10-30 06:37 · Score: 5, Funny

"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.
Moderators? HELLO? TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-30 06:39 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
Re:Already teaching them wrong by mosch · 2002-10-30 06:42 · Score: 4, Funny

I hate to be the one to tell you this but Penn State isn't Ivy League.
Ah my tax dollers at work... by st0rmshad0w · 2002-10-30 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Requisite GPA? by schlach · 2002-10-30 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny

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." =)
1. Re:Requisite GPA? by aengblom · 2002-10-30 07:03 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Score!
  
  I have exactly a 3.0! I can do everything!
  
  Take that "4.0" mom & "honor student" dad ;-)
  
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Gross misunderstanding... by UTPinky · 2002-10-30 06:46 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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yeah, right by fizban · 2002-10-30 06:48 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:Moderators? HELLO? TROLL! by User+956 · 2002-10-30 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Where's my startup? by dkarney · 2002-10-30 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny

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..
Re:Whatever happened to... by Alizarin+Erythrosin · 2002-10-30 07:39 · Score: 5, Funny

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!

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Re:when do they study? by medscaper · 2002-10-30 07:49 · Score: 5, Funny

I had a business when I was in school. Guess which activity took up most of my time? It wasn't school.
Was it your business?

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