chris-sri
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It's just been on the news. Some kid from Cheltenham has been offered £8.5 million for a website he has designed. He declined stating he is not in it for the money. A decision he will live to regret i would think.
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Whittie
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Nob
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Whittie
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What was it anyway?
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Cosmo
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not heard this, what site was it?
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chris-sri
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Something to do with current affairs for kids or something. Take the money and start a new one ffs.
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Cosmo
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take the money and retire FFS.
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James
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Surely it's not just the website they are offering 8.5 million for? 
Anyone can make a website regardless of how clever it is.
Unless he has patented it, or it makes fuck loads of money.
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Hammer
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sharpenews
the guy is clearly a fucking muppet
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Sam
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What a gaylord.
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LeeM
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fucking knob.
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dna23
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Could be a smart move, assuming that 8.5m was based on an expert valuation and what the site represents is worth that then turning it down will give it great publicity and there probably a healthy injection of new users making it in the long run maybe more valuable.
That said I haven't even seen the site....  could be shite and the company made a bad decision if so he should've gone with it.
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Cosmo
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SharpeNews is a bright and innovative young people's news agency, dedicating it's time and commitment to bring young people the latest news & information.
SharpeNews has been running for 5 years, with the founder, Nick Coates, and managing Director, Laura Daglish. Within the past few years, SharpeNews has grown dramatically, in both staff and visitors.
SharpeNews is a very competitive website offering news for young people in a way that they understand. Our company and websites are unique because they are ran by young people, who therefore, understand the needs of other young people.
SharpeNews has a team of over 40 staff members, who work in their spare time on SharpeNews, with no payment. Our staff are dedicated, and help us run the website, making it unique. Without these guys, we'd have no website or company!
Did you know ...
* SharpeNews handles over 2.5 million web hit's a month
* SharpeNews delivers more than 1000 news articles a month
* SharpeNews is targetted at 11-25 year olds
* SharpeNews gets on average 800 bookmarks a month
* SharpeNews has over 100 people on it at any one time
SharpeNews is a bright incentive, helping set up projects like Cleeve Fusion, GoMendip, SpeakItOut, MAD Youth Council, Hertforshire Youth Council, Bandfest and many more.
SharpeNews is a growing news agency, and with your help, we can grow even bigger.
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Matt H
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
sharpenews
Thats the name of the site?
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dna23
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Fuck what I just said if it is sharpenews what a mug. Sell.
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ed
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http://www.sharpenews.co.uk/sn/news/
This?
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
sharpenews
the guy is clearly a fucking muppet
http://www.sharpenews.co.uk 
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Sam
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Oh ed beat me to it. 
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Cosmo
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news story here
says he started it when he was 12, 17 now 
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John
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Front page looks shit, i didn't bother looking any further.
If he was offered 8.5mil for that and knocked it back he definitely is a knobend.
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ed
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He should get some investment into the site then perhaps? It's slow as fuck and looks pretty horrible...
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dna23
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Please tell me that's not it, I dont know much about web advertising so whether or not the stats Cosmo has posted up are any good for that but... its design is sooooo bad its slow... its not user friendly eugh.
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ed
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My first CSS.
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Hammer
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Sharpenews
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chris-sri
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That's the one. It was independantly valued at less still in the £millions though .
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Tommy L
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must be gay
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