Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are two things in the childhood of Thomas M. Fallows '99 that made his Web site, Rowers World (www.rowersworld.com) the success it is today...
...Fallows spends three to four hours a day on Rowers World, a project that combines his two loves to the tune of $100,000 a year in revenue. He maintains the site on a private server, without using Harvard computer facilities...
Over the summer, he started talking to two fellow members of the men's varsity lightweight crew, Jonathon D. Kibera '98, who designs Rowers World, and Chistopher J. Sims '98, who programs the site. The three rowers discussed developing a site where the country's 100,000 rowers could go for tips, information about rowing and possibly even merchandise. Kibera and Sims, who work at Sapient Corp., a consulting firm in San Francisco, work on the site from 4,000 miles away...
Fallows contacted rowing companies about selling their merchandise on the site. The companies not only agreed, but they asked Fallows to develop sites for them...
...sudden, when I got back to school in September, we had two weeks to get our own site up as well as the company sites," said Kibera. "I didn't go to class for two weeks...