OT: Blend - social networking app for college students except OSU
http://www.pehub.com/2014/03/college-app-blend-raises-2-7-mln-ohio-stat…
"The app is available for students in more than 3,500 universities nationwide, except those from Ohio State University. Blend co-founder and CEO Akash Nigam attended the University of Michigan before dropping out and launching Blend. As such, the company doesn’t allow students from rival school Ohio State to sign up for the app."
Now if only we can get them off of Tinder...the collective attractiveness AND intelligence of your "local choices" will go up exponentially around the Columbus area.
You want a Tinder selection of Columbus, OH while excluding OSU? There's truck stops all over the place, man.
Would make us look kind of dumb if it's a flop.
I'm surprised the groups funding this would allow for potential customers to be excluded. Pretty hiliarious.
The dude is brilliant. For whatever revenue he purposively left on the table by excluding OSU students he's now getting buckets of free publicity for his ap nationally. His press release, which under normal terms would get barely noticed, is now getting write-ups and commentary because of the exclusion.
Now THAT's a "Michigan Man." Find a way to profit by sticking it to the Buckeyes......
Funny! The network/product itself does not excite me, but I am not a student any longer.
Count me as one who thinks is kinda dumb. Why turn down more money?
Also, how does he prevent them from signing up? Do you need a .edu email? If not, it's pretty easy to go around it.
... comment above. It is 100% PR. The value in the short term of the OSU student body is much lower than the value of the PR (assumption). In the long term, if the company is successful, OSU folks will adopt it because it will be the default network for students. Similar to how Facebook can change their privacy policies all the time and no one leaves the network because of it. Only reason people are leaving is because it's not cool anymore.
Yeah, remember how FB was for only Harvard and then Ivy League schools when it started? PR, exclusivity, get some community support from Michigan peps, etc
Ya except that this available to 3500+ universities except at OSU, they're totally the same. No differences.
It's PR (and a funny joke), and that's all there is to it. At most, they're losing some potential users from OSU... who probably never would have heard of this app but for the free publicity they're getting for the "everyone but OSU" thing.
I think it's a funny, smart idea.
You really are Dave Brandon.
Greed is good.
At some point I would think it makes us look kind of petty, on the off chance this takes off. No doubt we'd feel that way if the shoe was on the other foot. I'd rather Michigan be known for what it gives everyone than what it denies to certain people.
We all hate OSU, but to me that's a sports thing. It's a game we play when we're talking about football and basketball. It's not something - for me, anyway - that extends into my day-to-day life. I have family and friends that went there. I would never treat any of them worse because of it.
I realize this is a social network, and we're not denying them cancer treatment or something actually significant. I don't mean to sound melodramatic here. Just not an approach I personally care for, that's all. Please don't downvote me and this box of adorable puppies.
"There's no gratification in winning, there's only upholding something so you don’t lose it …it's like a Kafka short story: you build something but you can't live in the house because you sit around guarding it."
OH YEA? WELL I'LL TAKE MY BALL AND GO HOME YOU GUYS. FINE.
great movie!
just because of this.
Beautiful
high class trolling is this.
if it is actually successful, they will get another free PR stunt when they make it available at OSU.
this guy may be a genius!
Good idea to exclude suckeyes.
Would you invite ants to a picinic?
Would you invite roaches and rats to a dinner party?
Heck NO! Then why invite suckeyes to anything.
Hehe, these guys have a good sense of humour, no cap. I remember these lovely days of college rivalry and big parties on weekends. Damn, it was so cool to hook up with a girl from opposite college, as it gave you a status of a hero for weeks. Oh, good old days. Nowadays to catch a girl you have to just to log in here https://www.hellohotties.com/hookup.html for example and, boom, a bunch of notifications in a few seconds. I bet, our children miss a lot of our experience