On January 3, 2000 an article was printed in Chicago's Crain business on Starbelly.com. The story highlights Bradley Keywell's hot new start-up that just got $32mm in venture capital from Chase Capital Partners and somehow Fred Wilson (famous VC) sold it to them.
I still have this article on my wall (it's kinda yellow now).....and funny enough, the same wall its been on since the story was written. 10 years ago we did more online business than Starbelly, .....yet they went on to sell this company to Halo (a large promotional products distributor) pocketing millions and bankrupting Halo eventually.
I just printed out the VistaPrint/Threadsmith press release from this morning and am going to put it on my wall. I wonder what I'll say about this article in 10 years?