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“We’re really enjoying our bare bones lifestyle (most of the time we don’t feel like we’ve even graduated from college) and with enough angel funding to sustain it until summer, we haven’t thought about accepting VC funding, let alone what we’d do with it.”

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“Rather than a company that makes multiple applications that work independently, we will be one thing: instant community for any site and any user. We will continue to expand our features for site-based communities, but we will increasingly be consumer-facing – making sense for individual users to sign up and centrally access our vast networks of diverse communities. Everyone will come to our site and experience the same thing –but by making simple choices during a “build-your-userplane” experience, each Userplane community will be customized for individual access privileges, look and feel, features, and monetization (advertising and revenue-share).”

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“The greatest challenge is finding the time to spend on development. We have lots of ideas and some great feedback from users. But, juggling day jobs, families, and life, in addition to working on a side-project, can be incredibly demanding. Some of the exposure we’ve received lately, such as getting in the New York Times and on eHub have been tremendously motivating though.”

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“The web will move more and more towards community services as we are starting to see with the current burst of services related to blogs, tagging and the Web2.0 … The current generation of search engines has treats mechanically a very large amount of information. The new generation of engines will take the human dimension into account. Not only by integrating ways of personalizing searches like some search engines, but also by harnessing human capacities for sorting and selection in order to improve the search results. Today this is a reality with yoono, we index sites which have grabbed the attention of users who have classified them accordingly.”

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“…the biggest thing I can stress is that it takes a lot of hard work: fame and popularity on the web cannot be achieved overnight, or even over 60 nights. Being driven is the only sure-fire way to get your foot in the door, hell, I had to cold-email 50 design firms in Chicago just to find a job that got me out there and started me off where I needed to be. Figure out where you want to be, then take the necessary steps to get you there, and don’t look back. Always move forward and remember that business is business — hard decisions need to be made, and you’ll be better off making them than sitting around wishing you had.”

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