I spend $22/yr to keep a site alive that I haven't checked in a long time...but it changed the course of my life.
October 23rd, 2011. Denver Broncos Football Club win in an overtime thriller over the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. The hero is Tim Tebow (or Matt Prater, depending how you look at it).
We leave the bar in New York and take the OG "Tebowing" picture. It gets 9 likes (since has received two more!!). I decide, in a fit of entrepreneurial inspiration and inebriation, that "this is viral". I start a tumblr blog. I send an email to 7 friends. I buy
Tebowing.com for $9.99. The rest is history.
It was the funniest few months of my life. I didn't sleep. I sat with Barry Dan, Robert Bernton, Andrew Edelson, and Aaron Sidorov scheming t-shirt designs and selling ads all day and night. I somehow didn't get fired from my job at StreetEasy.
Did it REALLY help my resume long term? Not really. It's a fun "two truths and a lie" story now. And I remember when Lewis Wiltshire ...