“Rate your prof: Popular Web sites let college students grade their teachers. Is that a good thing?”
John Swapceinski says he won’t quit his day job — not yet at least — but it is nice to know he could if he wanted to.
In October, Swapceinski sold his popular student-targeted Web site that lets college students rate their professors.
The business was sold to an online book-swapping service run by a 23-year-old entrepreneur.
The “seven-figure-deal” has made Swapceinski, a software engineer, a millionaire.
“I’m pretty excited,” Swapceinski said in a telephone interview from Menlo Park, Calif.
“Now, I will be free to pursue lots of other things.”
For Swapceinski, those “things” include gathering more Internet traffic for his latest venture, Ratingz.net, a fledgling ratings site that allows people to search and rate everything from the best lawyers to the best mechanics.
