Josh Weinstein, a web entrepreneur born and based in NYC, seems to have really enjoyed his time at college.
Like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Weinstein got his start building viral sites for his campus. At Princeton, his first big success was the matchmaking site GoodCrush.
But unlike Zuck, who dropped out of Harvard, Weinstein keeps coming back for more. "Excited for Princeton mini summer camp this weekend" he tweeted recently.
Earlier this year, Weinstein rode the Chatroullete wave, introducing a college only version, Random Dorm.
Now this Manhattanite, his LinkedIn page lists him as an alum of both Dalton and Stuyvesant, is creating a social network exclusively for the university set, CollegeOnly.
None of Weinsteins earlier project caught on in a big way, but they did increase his profile. For CollegeOnly he secured the backing of Peter Thiel, one of the earliest investors in Facebook.
The idea is to recapture some of the horny, free wheeling magic that made social networking great, before it opened up to everyone.
"I think people will like it because they don't want to post their photos for their employers, parents and high school siblings to see," Weinstein told the NYT.
Ahh the goood old days, when only our peers could see us puking behind the Romance Languages department.
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