Hello, my name is Chris Guthrie. I was born on November 16th 1983 and have had several interesting experiences as an entrepreneur. I will occasionally update this page when I have more to add to my story.

I got my first start as an entrepreneur on eBay when I was back in Junior High School and Pokemon cards were all the rage. No, I never played the game, but I did sell the cards. My mom would take me to the mall where I purchased packs of Pokemon cards at just over $3 a pack after tax and sell them individually on eBay. I would always list them at a penny each and would often see them sell for around $10 a pack and set a record at $25! I made nearly $1,000 that summer off a niche market that I later abandoned because I grew tired of it and many sellers came in and saturated the market. Pretty smart for a Junior High School student right? Well, after I made that money I spent over half of it on Drugstore.com stock right before the dot com crash only to watch my hard earned money disintegrate. Thankfully, I learned my lesson and have since decided to do far more research before purchasing stocks (especially those that aren’t even turning a profit).

A few years later I began to buy and sell more items on eBay, this time I went with Nintendo NES games. I began to buy large lots of games to resell individually. Occasionaly I would hold onto a game or two from the large lots I purchased for my personal collection but I got tired of dealing with packaging the games, shipping them, leaving feedback etc. and after making about $2,000 I stopped. I find myself to be routinely excited about something only to get tired of it several months later. Thankfully, I’ve found something I truly enjoy and am pleased to say I’ve been happily running websites for nearly three years; however, let me first tell you about how I started running websites in the first place because I believe it’s a good story and I think you’ll like it too…

Fast forward two years from my NES reselling days and on November 9th, 2004 I had something new to spend my time on - Halo 2. I was currently studying at Western Washington University for my Marketing degree when this game came out, and suffice it to say, I was addicted. Like Halo 1, I mounted up hours upon hours of gameplay and after playing Halo 2 for months I was playing with some great players and near the tops of the leaderboards. I took a video editing class at WWU and thought it’d be a lot of fun to capture my gameplay and make a montage with all of my clips. So I purchased a capture card for my PC and after capturing footage for a while I put out my first video “Dust 2 Dust”, and being among the first group of people to do this sort of thing gamers took notice. Thousands of people had seen that video and given me generally great feedback on it, especially after it was posted on a leading website for professional Halo players, Halo-Pro.com. Now at the time I didn’t think I was a pro at the game, but I was pretty good. My first video was received so well that I worked on a plan with my roommate in college to utilize my popularity to start a website. I decided that it’d be great to start a website where gamers could share their own game videos, discuss games and hang out. So I purchased the domain name GamingVidz.com and a vBulletin license. Now that the domain name was chosen, I made a video intro for the website in Adobe After Effects to place in the beginning and end of my next montage. After collecting enough footage and preparing the website I released my second Halo 2 montage, “Untouchable” in the summer of 2005. I estimate that it has been downloaded over a half a million times from a wide variety of websites. It is still credited as being one of the best Halo 2 montages (I’ve heard this from countless people and am not trying to sound cocky). After Untouchable hit the net, we immediately saw rapid growth at the site from people that wanted to watch more gaming videos.

After releasing that second montage, I’ve launched several more websites including HaloBoards.com, XboxLiveArcade.com, AdobeChat.com, thehalogod.com to name a few. Most of the large websites I run are vBulletin forums. I love the sense of community that being a part of a forum brings and plan to launch more forums in the future. I could see myself running forums and other websites on a full time basis someday, but I have a long way to go. I intend to share my proven ideas and mistakes while running forums and blogging so that you can learn from me.