My Kinda Guy Kawasaki
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8 Comments
Anonymous
September 23rd, 2002
at 6:54pm
I concur. Not a bad article, but certainly easy to take out of context.
Anonymous
September 23rd, 2002
at 7:27pm
A very well written article (although confused about “Lockergnome company employees have stayed behind in Silicorn Valley”, wouldnÂ’t that be Iowa?) Anyway, I can relate to this topic of “If you provide a great service, they will come” but in a much smaller scale. Since 1997 I have co-developed a game online that hundreds visit each day. Every time I show somebody what I believe is a great game, I always get the same response. You should be charging to play; you should be making money from advertisements. Well this sounds great and I'm not one to turn down money but I also take great pride in telling them that it's all done for free as a hobby. I would rather keep building this up as much as possible and have the site an extreme success before I start asking for a fee to play. It just wouldn't feel right. Maybe someday down the road I'll consider something to cover the costs but I have no intentions of ever charging, the increase in traffic is one of the biggest rewards and the excellent comments/feedback I have been getting from our participants is enough for me.
Anonymous
September 23rd, 2002
at 10:04pm
Yeah, the LG employees are based in Iowa.
Anonymous
September 23rd, 2002
at 10:26pm
Excellent! Well done, Chris!–Thom
Anonymous
September 24th, 2002
at 7:53am
That's pretty funny. They put the wrong school in as your almamater. You went to UNI didn't you?
Anonymous
September 24th, 2002
at 9:07am
LG is getting BIG!!!! Making waves!!! Getting noticed!!!! I am glad I am here to see it progress, watch it happen!!!! Keep it up, LG! LG! LG! LG! OH! OOOO! AAAAHHHHH! EEEEEEE! :)
Anonymous
September 24th, 2002
at 1:30pm
They said “(His major at the University of Northern Iowa was English education.) ”
That's most certainly UNI. :)
Anonymous
September 25th, 2002
at 4:08pm
Reading the opening paragraphs of that makes me wonder why you are not a HUGE part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Especially being in the bay area. What gives? :)