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Those of you who follow business week might have noticed that I was selected for the top 25 entrepreneurs under 25 years old around this time last year. They just did a follow up interview and article, so for those who are interested:
Then:
Over the years, Melen has batted away offers from big Internet companies looking to buy out his T35 Hosting service for fear that they would take away the offering that most distinguishes it from competitors: unlimited space and bandwidth hosted for free. Last year, Melen had set out three goals to expand his company in 2007: advertise more, offer domain name hosting for free, and boost features to its paid hosting offerings.Now:
Melen says he met all three goals and increased his customer base to about 400,000, up from 300,000 a year ago. Still, one unforeseen competitor emerged: Google (GOOG), which launched free Web-hosting service Google Pages in February. Melen believes the search giant’s presence will help boost overall growth in the Web-hosting space, but in order to prevent losing market share, T35 will have to provide more unique offerings. Some of his strategies include starting a blog about Web hosting and adding social networking features to hosted pages.”
Here’s the link to the article:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/10/1022_under25_finalists/source/17.htm
And here’s the actual “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25″ from 2006:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/10/bestunder25/index_01.htm
6 Responses
ragna4u
26|Oct|2007 1Congratulations, Alex! I believed that T35 will be featured in some day, and it was today!
Set up more goals to expand more!
joe24
26|Oct|2007 2Very cool.
Daniel White
26|Oct|2007 3SHAZAM
Alex Melen
26|Oct|2007 4Well it was featured over a year ago, but I didn’t have the blog back then to share the link. This is just a 1yr update article they did
Look for T35 in frobes in December as well!
Ryan
10|Nov|2007 5Hey, Alex. I originally was going to post this in the T35 forums themselves, but for some weird reason it won’t send me any activation e-mail whenever I try to register. Anyway, I used to be a user of T35 free some time back. You may (or may not) remember me as Cracker from the T35 forums (probably not though, since I haven’t hosted with T35 for over four years and haven’t had a website for over three years). I used to run the website Cyberryan’s South Park Sounds Haven ( http://web.archive.org/web/20040330234421/http://sounds.lambtron.com/ ), hosting it on various free hosts (even though it probably had enough traffic to warrant paid hosting but I was just too cheap to pay), until it was lucky enough to get picked up by the Smiley Town website (a larger South Park website, at the now defunct lambtron.com ). T35 free was the last free host I used before it joined the Smiley Town family, and it was also IMO the best free host I used.
Anyway, I am thinking about starting another sounds website, this one consisting of sounds from my favorite movies, starting with movies I own and movies uploaded in full to youtube.com (although most of them get deleted eventually anyway, many Youtube users have uploaded full length movies broken up into several 10 minute segments or so). This time I will actually pay for web hosting, as I have grown up in the past three years, and I am actually considering going with T35’s personal hosting package, since it seems to have reasonable disk space and traffic limits for the price (since I will use MPEG .wav’s on my new website just like I did my old one after a year, no file will probably be larger than 120 kb so 10 GB monthly data transfer seems like plenty and if I use more, well, then I will just have to pay for what I use), and I will know I’m contributing to keeping the best free hosting site alive as well
. I am not dumb enough to go with hosts that claim to offer 300 GB disk space and 3 TB traffic for $4/month or so because many of them are “fly by night” hosts that will probably run off with my yearly payment when they get in over their heads (I plan to prepay for a year so that I know my site will be up at least that long for others to see shall I lose interest in it). Since T35 has been around for a while, I know that will not happen here. Congratulations on passing the decade mark too!!
Alex Melen
13|Jun|2008 6Ryan! I don’t know how I missed this message but I definitly remember your site. Did you wind up starting your new sound website?
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