Steve Gadlin, Basecamp customer, received $25,000 from Mark Cuban on the television show SharkTank last Friday with his unique business idea: $10 cat drawings. He wants to draw a cat for you. What are you waiting for?
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Steve Gadlin, Basecamp customer, received $25,000 from Mark Cuban on the television show SharkTank last Friday with his unique business idea: $10 cat drawings. He wants to draw a cat for you. What are you waiting for?
Theo Mills
on 30 Jan 12Was he the owner of the cat.jpg?
John
on 30 Jan 12@Theo—LOL!
OlliM
on 30 Jan 12I’m outside of the US, so can’t watch the show. 10$ cat drawings seem like a fun idea, some people seem to want to buy them. What I don’t get is what he needs the 25k for. This sounds like exactly the kind of business / side job / hobby that could and should be bootstrapped.
JD
on 30 Jan 12@Theo /play trombone
Fred
on 30 Jan 12Easily Cuban’s worst investment.
David Andersen
on 30 Jan 12@OlliM -
You tell me how else you pay 1,000,000 Chinese workers for a year to crank out cat drawings?
Nate
on 30 Jan 12That would be cool if he had some ability/talent. There are to many real artists out there for me to agree with this shit.
Nate
on 30 Jan 12Too. Man, I hate typos almost as much as fake artists.
Nate
on 30 Jan 12Yes, I have posted three consecutive comments, and that probably breaks some sort of etiquette. I would erase my two previous comments if it were possible. I realize that this is a joke and a novelty item. The guy dancing around in his mom’s khakis behind a twelve year old monitor make that abundantly clear. This still irks me though. Being an artist is really hard. People don’t get it, or think their taste, which they haven’t spent more than an hour in their life developing, is meaningful. When they do get it, they don’t think it’s worth paying for, and they go down to the poster shop and put a two hundred dollar frame on some print of a dead guy’s painting. I know I’m making too much out of this and if people want to throw away ten bucks for a conversation piece, that is their right, but if you want to buy some real art for very cheap, go ahead and click on my name.
Anonymous
on 31 Jan 12How did you know he is a Basecamp customer?
JF
on 01 Feb 12How did you know he is a Basecamp customer?
I emailed him congratulating him on the deal with Cuban and he told me.
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