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Article: Connecting college campuses.(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Jaja Jackson wires rah-rah circuit for customized Web services
Some ideas jump off drawing boards. Others evolve from long, tedious meetings. But the beginnings of Mascot Network can be traced to the scribbles on a napkin in a Harvard Square restaurant.
There had to be a way, mused Jaja Jackson, a few years removed from his days as a Harvard Business School student, to get ideas, news, event announcements, and other information across a college campus without having to literally walk across it with a megaphone and a handful of flyers.
From the scribbles that Jackson and co-founder Jason Palmer mulled over on that napkin in 1998 came the idea for ...