Pro snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler and pro skater Lauren Perkins are joining pro baller Steve Nash, pro paintballer Johnny Perchak (and others) in backing a new website that reportedly will help people learn how to become pro athletes. The site, which launches Wednesday July 29, 2009 is called Makeitpro.com, according to a story on Forbes.com.
These optimists are launching MakeItPro.com July 29, a site targeted to young athletes, especially those not growing up in sports hotbeds, offering them sport-by-sport advice as well as a social network to help connect with coaches and recruiters.
Because we all know that by following a few tips from our favorite pros we all be living the good life in no time. God, we just hope Gretchen and Lauren are getting paid upfront. . .
[Link: Forbes.com]
beyond lame. helping turn snowboarding into a football based sport.
Check out the comments @ the bottom of the Forbes article… they can’t be for real.
I worked with a dot-com that made similar claims once… needless to say, I’m still working and not living off the bundles of stock options they discussed when I was hired.
I’m unsure what’s worse the website or the closing forbes provides
“The company aims to turn a profit in 2010, then to grow to 29 million users and $69 million in annual revenue in five years. Crazy? Maybe. But then again, so is Twitter.”
I get the kitschy “Twitter doesn’t make sense to my cigar chomping generation you fancy shmancy kids” vibe but here’s the key difference: Twitter was the first of something. Don’t we have Loopd and countless other shitbird social networks for this exact reason? Sounds like Steve Nash need to reign in his brother Hubert’s pet projects? Then again if people are handing out money for Loopd and makeitpro.com … hey why not get in on the action. Boardistan should buy Go211.com for a couple of sawbucks and raise the funding.
And yes BB those comments are fake too close together. They should have spaced each one out by a couple of days.
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