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Vick

08-11-2004, 06:06 PM

Would have re-invested more

Would have owned mainstream before/during the high flying days and been diversified enough to withstand the crash

Would have started a proggy much sooner

Would have gotten rid of former partners sooner

Would have bought a few (internet) properties that were offered to me that I didn't think were worth it at the time

am sure there are more, damn it hurts to think about

Now I can wish in one and shit in the other and see .....

Peaches

08-11-2004, 06:08 PM

Married the guy I was dating, bought a shitload of property in East Cobb and the mountains and stopped eating so much :awinky:

pushpills

08-11-2004, 06:10 PM

woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.

SykkBoy

08-11-2004, 06:13 PM

wouldn't have spent all the money I made spamming newsgroups so damn fast....
would have re-invested better
wouldn't have left for the "greener pastures" of mainstream so fast and so thorough....
would have found a way to work for Busty Amateurs so I could take over before Jeff found God....

pushpills

08-11-2004, 06:13 PM

I also woulda bought soo many more typos had I not smoked and partied away most of my earnings instead of investing them.

Almighty Colin

08-11-2004, 06:13 PM

I would have done everything then that I think would be the right thing to do now which I will, in turn, think was the wrong thing to do five years from now.

Vick

08-11-2004, 06:14 PM

Originally posted by pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then?

pushpills

08-11-2004, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by Vick+Aug 11 2004, 04:15 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Vick @ Aug 11 2004, 04:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then? [/b][/quote]
yea, why?

think I was the only underage webmaster?

I changed all my usernames once I hit 18 at least, and alot of the shit I used to promote isn't even around anymore.

Peaches

08-11-2004, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by Vick+Aug 11 2004, 06:15 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Vick @ Aug 11 2004, 06:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then? [/b][/quote]
I bet he was. He and CT are the same age and CT has a friend making big bucks with a link to Nike when they were in their early teens :)

Vick

08-11-2004, 06:32 PM

Originally posted by pushpills+Aug 11 2004, 05:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pushpills @ Aug 11 2004, 05:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Vick@Aug 11 2004, 04:15 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then?
yea, why?

think I was the only underage webmaster?

I changed all my usernames once I hit 18 at least, and alot of the shit I used to promote isn't even around anymore. [/b][/quote]
That's certainly an enterprising young man

08-11-2004, 06:50 PM

I don't think I'd do anything differently ...

Without the mistakes, I'd be no smarter now than in 1998!!!!

I'd probably have slowed down a little for my health and given myself a bit more credit for my achievements instead of comparing them to people with 20+ years on me ... but I wouldn't change anything major.

I try to imagine what life would be like without the mistakes, and I've come to the conclusion that without learning from our mistakes we NEVER change ... and without mistakes, we don't get the opportunity to see which path was the wrong choice.

Yug

08-11-2004, 07:00 PM

1998? What would I have done differently?

I was in year 12 then ... If i could go back, I wouldnt have crashed my car into the principals car on the way out of the school after trashing it with a whole bunch of mates on the 2nd last day of school. Did anyone else ever have that tradition, the year 12's on the night of the 2nd last day would just trash everything, then run amok on the last day.

Difference was instead of running amok, at 2am in the morning i was exchanging phone numbers and contact details with my principal.

If i could go back, I would have just egged his car :P

08-11-2004, 07:03 PM

I would have followed Rick's advice about domain names... I still remember thinking he was a jackass for spending $90K for porno.com.

I would have become the biggest spammer on the net and socked away 20 million or so!

Nickatilynx

08-11-2004, 07:28 PM

Originally posted by pushpills+Aug 11 2004, 02:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (pushpills @ Aug 11 2004, 02:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Vick@Aug 11 2004, 04:15 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then?
yea, why?

think I was the only underage webmaster?

I changed all my usernames once I hit 18 at least, and alot of the shit I used to promote isn't even around anymore. [/b][/quote]
I know a webmaster that made 300k US ...when he was 13.

No names....

;-)))

Nickatilynx

08-11-2004, 07:29 PM

Originally posted by cj@Aug 11 2004, 02:51 PM
I don't think I'd do anything differently ...

Without the mistakes, I'd be no smarter now than in 1998!!!!

I'd probably have slowed down a little for my health and given myself a bit more credit for my achievements instead of comparing them to people with 20+ years on me ... but I wouldn't change anything major.

I try to imagine what life would be like without the mistakes, and I've come to the conclusion that without learning from our mistakes we NEVER change ... and without mistakes, we don't get the opportunity to see which path was the wrong choice.
daftest post ever!

Peaches

08-11-2004, 07:33 PM

Originally posted by Nickatilynx+Aug 11 2004, 07:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Nickatilynx @ Aug 11 2004, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 02:17 PM
Originally posted by Vick@Aug 11 2004, 04:15 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-pushpills@Aug 11 2004, 05:11 PM
woulda smoked less pot and not think a few grand a month was premo cash. woulda been wise to boot some of my fair weather friends too.
Steve - um ...... 1998 was 6 years ago

You were 15, were you making internet $ then?
yea, why?

think I was the only underage webmaster?

I changed all my usernames once I hit 18 at least, and alot of the shit I used to promote isn't even around anymore.
I know a webmaster that made 300k US ...when he was 13.

No names....

;-))) [/b][/quote]
I remember a mother calling a program I was doing some work for about a $30K check her 14 year old son had just gotten from us. They told her what it was for. She said "OK" and hung up. She didn't care and the program didn't care - $30K every two weeks worth of traffic was fine all around. :agrin:

gigi

08-11-2004, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by Colin@Aug 11 2004, 02:14 PM
I would have done everything then that I think would be the right thing to do now which I will, in turn, think was the wrong thing to do five years from now.
Ditto. :P

Dravyk

08-11-2004, 11:04 PM

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Aug 11 2004, 08:29 PM
I know a webmaster that made 300k US ...when he was 13.

No names....

;-)))
Ok, no one say "Steve". :agrin:

So would you go back in time and hire Kaiser again? :nyanya:

Hell Puppy

08-11-2004, 11:13 PM

I would put all my money into Ebay:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EBAY&t=my

gonzo

08-11-2004, 11:23 PM

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Aug 11 2004, 10:14 PM
I would put all my money into Ebay:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EBAY&t=my
No its 1993 and you are at Spanky's in Buckhead....

If it was me...Id have a 2nd on my house and talked Hellpuppy into doing the same thing and beat Mindspring to the punch by several years.

Hell Puppy

08-11-2004, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by gonzo+Aug 11 2004, 10:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gonzo @ Aug 11 2004, 10:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Hell Puppy@Aug 11 2004, 10:14 PM
I would put all my money into Ebay:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EBAY&t=my
No its 1993 and you are at Spanky's in Buckhead....

If it was me...Id have a 2nd on my house and talked Hellpuppy into doing the same thing and beat Mindspring to the punch by several years. [/b][/quote]
Yup, the bigger opportunities missed were not porn.

But rather not doing a dotcom startup when VCs were throwing money at absolutely anything, popping an IPO, selling out and sailing off into the sunset with HUNDREDS of millions.

Guys like Mark Cuban got it right...

08-12-2004, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by Nickatilynx+Aug 11 2004, 06:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Nickatilynx @ Aug 11 2004, 06:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-cj@Aug 11 2004, 02:51 PM
I don't think I'd do anything differently ...

Without the mistakes, I'd be no smarter now than in 1998!!!!

I'd probably have slowed down a little for my health and given myself a bit more credit for my achievements instead of comparing them to people with 20+ years on me ... but I wouldn't change anything major.

I try to imagine what life would be like without the mistakes, and I've come to the conclusion that without learning from our mistakes we NEVER change ... and without mistakes, we don't get the opportunity to see which path was the wrong choice.
daftest post ever! [/b][/quote]
why?!

because i'm not sitting around whinging about mistakes I made in the past that I can't do anything about anyway?!?!? and pretending i've learnt something like you are?!

is this better oh wise (ahem) con artist from the north?

If I could go back to 98, I'd not spend so much energy for other people's benefit. I'd recognise that there is no such thing as friends in business and that following other people's advice gets you where THEY want you and nowhere else.

:moon:

Sabby

08-12-2004, 12:27 AM

I would kick my husbands ass out the door and tell him he has to work 3 jobs and I would sit on my ass all day and get really fat!!!

Sabby:)

Dravyk

08-12-2004, 01:43 AM

What would I do different?

Find a superior and dependable programmer who wasn't a total dipshit (I know of perhaps two out of a thousand) and never let him work for anyone else but me.

Become a lot meaner a lot sooner. (Has to do with some employees I no longer have working for me.)

Made lots of ugly sites. (In-joke for Nick.)

kath

08-12-2004, 11:56 AM

The list of things I would do different is SO long... hard to say though because the things we do today - even the mistakes - make us into the person we are tomorrow... so maybe even our mistakes were a good thing in way.

Regardless...

#1 - Wouldn't have trusted certain people as much as I did...
#2 - Would have trusted certain people more than I did...
#3 - Would have taken more chances/opportunities that were offered that I turned down because of my silly professional "loyalty" issues...
#4 - Wouldn't have stopped building sites when I did and kept at least one foot in that door years ago...
#5 - Would have stuck up for myself more, been more assertive and not been such a passive, trusting, loyal schmuck...

That about covers it... at least the top 5... and most apply to the rest of the list as well in a nutshell... *sigh* Live and learn...

:rolleyes:

Evil Chris

08-12-2004, 12:05 PM

knowing what I know now?

A ton of things, really...

But I would have bought up a ton of domains names, that's for sure.

Nickatilynx

08-12-2004, 12:24 PM

1.) Buy a lot of domains
2.) Sent traffic to my own group of paysites earlier
3.) Started a poker site

Winetalk.com

08-12-2004, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by cj+Aug 11 2004, 11:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cj @ Aug 11 2004, 11:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Aug 11 2004, 06:30 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-cj@Aug 11 2004, 02:51 PM
I don't think I'd do anything differently ...

Without the mistakes, I'd be no smarter now than in 1998!!!!

I'd probably have slowed down a little for my health and given myself a bit more credit for my achievements instead of comparing them to people with 20+ years on me ... but I wouldn't change anything major.

I try to imagine what life would be like without the mistakes, and I've come to the conclusion that without learning from our mistakes we NEVER change ... and without mistakes, we don't get the opportunity to see which path was the wrong choice.
daftest post ever!
why?!

because i'm not sitting around whinging about mistakes I made in the past that I can't do anything about anyway?!?!? and pretending i've learnt something like you are?!

is this better oh wise (ahem) con artist from the north?

If I could go back to 98, I'd not spend so much energy for other people's benefit. I'd recognise that there is no such thing as friends in business and that following other people's advice gets you where THEY want you and nowhere else.

:moon: [/b][/quote]
Nick,
children can't grow up over nite,
I see the maximalizm of "uts" and people are like wine,
they need time to mature
;-)))

Rolo

08-12-2004, 02:14 PM

I would steal all the content on the net - build a network of tgps, and freehosts, and convince webmasters that its not about the amount of money you make - its about how many visitors you get, so you can improve your counter ranking, they would start sending me traffic, so they can be just as cool as me...
I would then expand this to webmaster boards - convince webmasters is not about how much money you make, its about how many post they make - by the end of 1998 I would be the coolest webmaster in the world banking a cool $30-100K per month, and having a post count of 23717. When I had paid for all my leased stuff, then I would reinvest all $1-3K I had left in big bling bling gold chains, which would give me more respect, when I travled to player parties around the US.

Damn - I wish I had done that, and not someone else... must have been an exciting time, insted of having to deal with bankers, lawyers, tax people, employees, brokers, lawyers, investors - and did I meantion lawyers? ;-)))