Pitching Their Tent On The Web
In Seinfeld parlance, T.J. Shanoff and Brad Spirrison were winter friends. While attending Chicago’s Latin School, the two hung out together. But every summer they split up to go to separate camps in Wisconsin to be with their summer friends.
Now they’ve teamed up to create a Web site, MyCampFriends.com, where everyone can be year-round friends.
Since its start last September, 2,500 camp alums have registered, most to find old pals, though some have used it to organize reunions. Shanoff, 34, a music director at Second City, and Spirrison, 33, president of Midwest Business, a Chicago Internet service, expect ad revenues to hit $250,000 in 2009. They spent $35,000 to get the venture started.
Are the entrepreneurs happy campers? “We’re ecstatic campers,” says Shanoff.
Photo by MyCampFriends.com.
Angela on June 12th, 2008 11:50 am
That’s an excellent idea! Makes me even wonder what happened to those people I’d become friends with back when I used to go to summer camp.
danakeith on June 12th, 2008 4:13 pm
yeah! very excellent. through this we have possibility to find our friends way back.. and able to be with them together.
Ram Sharma on June 12th, 2008 5:52 pm
Great post, its really interesting to see the level of innovation that social networking has brought.
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