Lessons Learned: Patrick Lee Throws Some Rotten Tomatoes At Your
Startup   On October 24th as a part of the CoCoon
Entrepreneurial Series, CoCoon hosted Patrick Lee to speak about
his experiences with Rotten Tomatoes.   Rotten Tomatoes is a
leading entertainment website that rates movies before they are
released to the public. The site uses 400 critic reviews to get
the average critic rating. A movie with 60% rating and above
would be considered a fresh movie, while a movie with below 60%
would be considered rotten. A good movie would receive a tomato,
while a poor movie would receive a green asterisk that was
supposed to symbolize the effects of a thrown rotten tomato.
Rotten Tomatoes also offers entertainment news and a searchable
movie database.  Patrick discussed the beginnings and the trials
and tribulations that Rotten Tomatoes navigated. Rotten Tomatoes
survived both the first dot com crash of 2001 and also the after
effects of 9/11. Also, Patrick discussed the growth period and
revenue paths that Rott