In 2002, my friend David and I were going to create a website called BuyMyBrownstone.com. Interestingly enough, the URL is still available. We were going to try to raise $5,000,000 by posting a sob story about how we are two upper-middle class New Yorkers who simply couldn't afford the brownstone that our wives and children need... Our thought was, if 21 year old Alex Tew from Wiltshire, England could raise $1,000,000 dollars by selling pixels on http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, we could raise $5,000,000 for our building. Granted, he was raising the money to pay for college and then set his parents up for life (a slightly better story) but we wanted our brownstone, dammit. 5 years later, I am still struggling with how I can raise the money. Is there a catch that would get people to give?
Saturday, August 18, 2007
BuyMyBrownstone.Com
In 2002, my friend David and I were going to create a website called BuyMyBrownstone.com. Interestingly enough, the URL is still available. We were going to try to raise $5,000,000 by posting a sob story about how we are two upper-middle class New Yorkers who simply couldn't afford the brownstone that our wives and children need... Our thought was, if 21 year old Alex Tew from Wiltshire, England could raise $1,000,000 dollars by selling pixels on http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, we could raise $5,000,000 for our building. Granted, he was raising the money to pay for college and then set his parents up for life (a slightly better story) but we wanted our brownstone, dammit. 5 years later, I am still struggling with how I can raise the money. Is there a catch that would get people to give?
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