If the "One Red Paperclip" story made you go why didn't I think of that? then this one will really have you kicking yourself.
21-year-old student Alex Tew wanted to make some money for tuition and the idea struck him to create a webpage 1000x1000 pixels and sell adspace at $1 a pixel. He launched the site on August 26, 2005 and auctioned the last block of 1,000 pixels on eBay January 1 which sold on Jan. 11 for $38,100. So about 4 and a half months after it started, he was finished and had made $1,037,100!!
Of course there have been several attempts at copycat sites that have been mostly failures. This is one of those things that only worked because it had never been done before. But it just goes to show if you can come up with your own "just crazy enough to work" scheme there's no telling what you could accomplish. Wanna be startin' something? Well, here's an article to help get you thinking in the right direction.
21-year-old student Alex Tew wanted to make some money for tuition and the idea struck him to create a webpage 1000x1000 pixels and sell adspace at $1 a pixel. He launched the site on August 26, 2005 and auctioned the last block of 1,000 pixels on eBay January 1 which sold on Jan. 11 for $38,100. So about 4 and a half months after it started, he was finished and had made $1,037,100!!
Of course there have been several attempts at copycat sites that have been mostly failures. This is one of those things that only worked because it had never been done before. But it just goes to show if you can come up with your own "just crazy enough to work" scheme there's no telling what you could accomplish. Wanna be startin' something? Well, here's an article to help get you thinking in the right direction.
I have no idea how he managed to make 1 mil off of office chairs, like if they're cheap or something, but man.
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