Basecamp gets a shoutout in this article in Entrepreneur magazine: Looking Fly on the Cheap (subtitle: "Some surefire methods for polishing your college startup's appearance").
As a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ryan Durkin felt the frustration among peers having to juggle online college resources like social networks, the university homepage and course websites. So in 2007, he partnered with Jared Stenquist and Boris Revsin to start CampusLIVE, a web portal dedicated to the college community. Durkin and his team decided to turn to web-based project collaboration tool Basecamp to keep everyone on point. Now, at a cost of between $24 and $149 per month, Durkin can have employees across campus working on projects ranging from designing new campus features to connecting with local charities. Says Durkin, 23, “CampusLIVE needed a tool to inexpensively and effectively communicate within the company.”
