The New Year is near. New owners are here.

December 31, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Happenings   

New Year

Most of you know how YGG began. For those that don’t, it was simply a forum created in spite of another for young entrepreneurs. There were a small group of us that back in August of ‘05 decided to join Eric and contribute to his little community rather than respond to the same “what business should I start” questions on the site we all left.

At that time I didn’t know much about Eric. He always had a bit of attitude in his replies. I liked that. As YGG slowly grew, I saw pictures of him marrying his lovely wife Diana. I saw his first house. I started to chat with him a little more.

In early ‘06 I approached him with the idea of partnering to build an enormous community for young go getters. Some 9 months and two horrible developers later, we ended up with an iframe madness at a time where we really knew nothing about CMS (content management systems) or blogging. Fortunately, that site was short-lived.

We started to go in the right direction when we made the move to Wordpress. A developer in Alaska by the name of Brandon, was kind enough to lend a hand in helping develop our first version of the blog. Since then we’ve gone through 2 more versions/styles of the site, have been interviewed by blogs and media of all sizes, and grown to a substantial size with members, readers, and subscribers all over the world with a passion for entrepreneurship and helping one another.

Back in November Eric and I tried our best to plan for a series of updates to the site. We had plenty of big ideas, topics just dying to be written, and possibly a leap to a new platform. With Eric moving into his second house and me juggling a client and several projects, the stars never seemed to align.

The options were to either keep at it or consider selling the site. Had we gone with the first option the irregular flow of content would have been consistent for many months to come, if not forever. I think we both became over-occupied to maintain our hopefull momentum.

So instead of apologizing every other post for not living up to our promises, we set out to find someone we thought could help YGG grow to the size and quality we’d always discussed.

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