JSchneier
09-02-2009, 07:17 AM
Stats
This site reaches over 114K people monthly, of which 87,398 (77%) are in the U.S. The site appeals to a teen, slightly female-slanted audience. As of August 2009, there were 104,964 members, 408,455 posts and 41,633 threads.
About Zuneboards.com
Zuneboards is one of the oldest established sites dedicated to the Microsoft Zune media player. A one-stop community resource where you can solve all your Zune problems, meet other Zune owners and get news about accessories, deals, and games.
History
Hansup Yoop, a teenager of Fullerton, California recognized an opportunity when he read about Microsoft’s plans to release an iPod competitor. He beat Microsoft to the punch and built Zuneboard himself using MyBBoard software, later shifting to vBulletin and Joomla!
Zuneboard was up and running with a 6-month head start. In less than two years, 60,000 members were active making more than 270,000 posts — all about Zune.
“It was the most perfect time to start a Web site about Zune and I was one of the first few to create a Zune-related site,” Yoon told Jan Norman, a reporter for the OC Register.
Yoon leveraged his forum by putting in place a revenue model that earned him $1,000 a month from ad networks like Google Adsense and TribalFusion. He marketed Zuneboards by exchanging posts with other small forums.
In 2008, Yoon decided to sell Zuneboards and he posted it on SitePoint. CrowdGather successfully bid for the site and acquired it on July 7, 2008 for $62,000. At the time of the sale, Yoon was only 15 years old.
Sanjay Sabnani, CEO of CrowdGather, wasn’t surprised to learn that his acquisition was created and owned by a teen-ager. One of Sanjay’s first acquisitions was from a 16-year-old from Italy.
Zuneboards is a site launched out-of-extraordinary creativity on the part of someone so young. The site has continued to grow since the acquisition and has reached over 100K members. If Yoon had wanted to start a business 15 years ago, it probably would have been as a newspaper delivery boy or perhaps mowing lawns. Today, a teenager can look at a market opportunity and can reach thousands of people.
This site reaches over 114K people monthly, of which 87,398 (77%) are in the U.S. The site appeals to a teen, slightly female-slanted audience. As of August 2009, there were 104,964 members, 408,455 posts and 41,633 threads.
About Zuneboards.com
Zuneboards is one of the oldest established sites dedicated to the Microsoft Zune media player. A one-stop community resource where you can solve all your Zune problems, meet other Zune owners and get news about accessories, deals, and games.
History
Hansup Yoop, a teenager of Fullerton, California recognized an opportunity when he read about Microsoft’s plans to release an iPod competitor. He beat Microsoft to the punch and built Zuneboard himself using MyBBoard software, later shifting to vBulletin and Joomla!
Zuneboard was up and running with a 6-month head start. In less than two years, 60,000 members were active making more than 270,000 posts — all about Zune.
“It was the most perfect time to start a Web site about Zune and I was one of the first few to create a Zune-related site,” Yoon told Jan Norman, a reporter for the OC Register.
Yoon leveraged his forum by putting in place a revenue model that earned him $1,000 a month from ad networks like Google Adsense and TribalFusion. He marketed Zuneboards by exchanging posts with other small forums.
In 2008, Yoon decided to sell Zuneboards and he posted it on SitePoint. CrowdGather successfully bid for the site and acquired it on July 7, 2008 for $62,000. At the time of the sale, Yoon was only 15 years old.
Sanjay Sabnani, CEO of CrowdGather, wasn’t surprised to learn that his acquisition was created and owned by a teen-ager. One of Sanjay’s first acquisitions was from a 16-year-old from Italy.
Zuneboards is a site launched out-of-extraordinary creativity on the part of someone so young. The site has continued to grow since the acquisition and has reached over 100K members. If Yoon had wanted to start a business 15 years ago, it probably would have been as a newspaper delivery boy or perhaps mowing lawns. Today, a teenager can look at a market opportunity and can reach thousands of people.