But even if the company folds, the experience will have been worthwhile.
"It's really an opportunity to do something exciting on the cutting edge, something that really has the potential to make a bunch of people's lives better, which is really compelling for me," Alpert says.
His interest in the Internet is an extension of those first games on the Apple IIe, he says.
"As soon as I heard about the Internet, which was when I was in junior high school," Alpert says, "I really thought this was the thing that was going to help computers accomplish that potential, and so far it has."
Working Hard At Having Fun
Yagan, Chris R. Coyne '99, Max N. Krohn '99 and Eli W. Bolotin '99 launched TheSpark.com early last year with the Pimpin' Cupid, a feature to help singles meet.
"Not only is it a cool idea for a dating program, but it also is a fantastic marketing program," Yagan says. "Because of the way it works, it spreads in a viral fashion."
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