The College Answers was first dreamed up in room 207 of Mosher-Jordan hall at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor on January 15, 2006. The idea struck Tyrone Schiff, the creator of The College Answers, after watching a GoDaddy.com commercial. He realized that if he bought a cheap domain name, he could sell it off for a quick profit. After a few minutes of thinking up a great idea it suddenly came to Schiff that he should start a website in which college students can write about their lives. Schiff, being a first year, second semester college student at the time, was obviously very interested in the road that lay ahead of him. He thought that this idea had a targeted audience, broad ranging appeal to a variety of ages, and contained something unique that had never really been done before.

Schiff hurriedly went to GoDaddy.com and started searching for domain names that dealt with College and a search for the truth behind it all. Really, without much hesitation Schiff went with CollegeAnswers.com, only to see that it had already been registered. Schiff noticed, however, that using the article "The" in front of collegeanswers was still available. Schiff jumped at the domain name and registered for it the same night the idea came to him. Schiff, not knowing the slightest bit about web design, tried pooling all of the resources around him to figure it out. His first ally came in the help of his next door neighbor, Doug Jacobs. Schiff and Jacobs had always gotten along but were not considered the best of friends. Schiff knew that Jacobs was "into" computers and had even done a little bit of web design himself. Schiff went next door to Jacobs' room at close to 2am and asked Jacobs for a web design program he could use and how he should go about designing his own website. Jacobs was mostly unhelpful in this regard, because he was too busy with his band. From this moment onward, Schiff set out on a personal quest to acquire as much knowledge on the subject of web design and implement his idea so that the world could benefit from it.The College Answers started off very slowly. For the first couple months, Schiff would just implement pre-scripted programs offered for free by GoDaddy.com. Although Schiff was learning the ropes and creating the "meat and bones" of his idea, he grew frustrated out of the fact that it wasn't doing the things that he initially dreamed up. He wanted it to be more conducive to a college audience, and felt like designing the site in his own image, not someone else's. When Schiff's first year of college came to a close in 2006, his work on The College Answers also took a dive. He was occupied with other things and had pretty much forgotten about his internet endeavor. It wasn't until mid-June that Schiff started to work on The College Answers again, due to the influence and motivation of Sam Sharff. Sharff had been a role model for Schiff since he met Sharff in 2005, only a senior in high school visiting friends at the University of Michigan.

Sharff seemed like a "like-soul" to Schiff, and he found this refreshing. Ever since then, Schiff has looked to Sharff for advice and friendship.Though Sharff was in New York for the summer, and Schiff in Chicago, the two communicated with one another via e-mail, online messaging, and the occasional phone call. Sharff had always been a great motivator to Schiff, no matter what he was working on and would often times remind Schiff of the projects he continually jumped in and out of. Whether Schiff had subconsciously decided to put The College Answers on the backburner or not, Sharff remembered this idea and asked Schiff what his progress was. Schiff was just laying in his bed, around 2pm in the afternoon, waiting to go to work as a nanny (the job he had that summer), and this reference seemed to reinvigorate Schiff. Schiff was a little disappointed in himself for not pursuing it since the end of the college year, but was happy that Sharff had the insight to ask about this project in particular. That day, Schiff recommitted himself to the website. Schiff still knew absolutely nothing about web design. His job as a nanny that summer, however, was a good one to have for someone who needed to learn how to build a website from scratch. He would only begin working at 3pm usually, but would wake up in the morning and search all over the internet for texts to read about web design and try to decipher the many scripts and languages that make up this powerful tool. At first Schiff made the site completely manual. He would receive College Answers from users via an e-mail script and load it onto the website himself. He then proceeded to link certain words within the user's text to other websites on the Internet in order to make the experience more enjoyable. Schiff realized very quickly that this was not going to work if he wanted the website to grow to have a large audience. Each of his initial College Answers he received took him anywhere between 10 and 20 minutes to completely do. Schiff received his first College Answers from friends that were supportive of his project. Zach Sherman, Matthew Kretman, Mac Philips, Janelle Kroll, Menachem Wecker, and not to mention, Sam Sharff all contributed to the website first.

Schiff then started to implement other methods. He learned how to code in php and mysql, which helped the site run more automatically. This only occurred at the start of his sophomore year in college. However, Schiff was extremely pleased with the progress of his site and wanted to officially launch it to the public. The College Answers was officially launched to the public on September 11, 2006, because this date coincided with a chapter meeting at Schiff's fraternity. Schiff understood that in order to reach the largest amount of people he could, he would have to use the networks that he had established. The most convenient one at the University of Michigan was his fraternity, and the Greek System as a whole. On that day, Schiff stood before his chapter and asked for their support in his endeavor. They were very receptive.

Within a couple weeks, the website was growing enormously on the University of Michigan campus. Schiff was also getting helped by people on other campuses, like Matthew Zohn at the University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana, and Garrett Salk at Indiana University. One of Schiff's primary methods of getting the word out about this new website was Facebook, an online social network that was used by millions of college kids across the country, which also happened to be Schiff's target demographic. The College Answers was growing tremendously, receiving upwards of 30 or 40 thousand hits a month by November of 2006, in large part because of Facebook. One of the first things Schiff did on Facebook was create a group that publicized the website. With the help of fraternity brothers and friends, the group was growing at an immense speed and reached 1,000 people. This had great effects on the traffic that it was filtering to The College Answers. All of a sudden, one day Schiff was unable to log into his Facebook account. He had a strange warning on the screen that said, "Please e-mail the administrator." This was a message that Schiff hadn't seen before. He was unsure as to what was going on, so he did indeed e-mail the administrator. Schiff had not received a reply in 24 hours and believed that he had been deactivated from Facebook for no reason at all. As a result, Schiff's friend, Sam Sharff, started a group on Facebook called "Free Tyrone," which was intended to be a petition to get Schiff back onto Facebook for merely promoting a website. A couple days later Schiff received the following e-mail from Facebook,

Hi, I've reactivate your account. However, please stop [...] asking users to visit www.thecollegeanswers.com. [...] A warning will remain filed on your account. Any future violations will result in the permanent loss of your account. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

A small hiccup for Schiff, but a true testament to the rapid growth that The College Answers was taking on. The site continued to grow at a steady pace until January of 2007. The College Answers used to have members sign-up in order to submit a College Answer, and the number of members had grown to 500 by early January. At this point, Schiff started to shy away from The College Answers yet again, and took a far more hands off approach. He had ways to make it grow, but never followed through on any of his ideas. His head was not in the right place to build up the next big thing at this stage in his life. All of Schiff's second semester of his sophomore year was a mostly static time for The College Answers. People would submit now and again, but Schiff never really made a push to try and change things on the website or entice his viewers and readers to become more attached. The summer of 2007 holds a different story for The College Answers. Schiff decided to completely redesign and revamp The College Answers. He believed that by giving it a new look; he would be able to breathe new life into the idea. He was greatly influenced this time after reading "The Google Story." Schiff had always admired Google the company, and wanted to learn more about it. He finished the book in a matter of days, and what came of it was one intense realization that he had to create a quality product. He realized that his idea could be the best that ever was, but if the mechanism to achieving that goal was unsatisfactory, there was no way to succeed. Schiff saw a blatant portrayal of this through the story of Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, were always trying to create a great product that would change humanity, the rest would follow they assumed (and it did). At this point, we are at the present. The College Answers and its new redesign will be launched on August 1, 2007. In order to get people excited about using the website again, Schiff is holding the very first, and what he hopes to be of many, College Answers competition. The new features are abounding and according to Schiff,

This is just the beginning.

Tyrone wanted to expand the scope of the website and acquired a second domain name called, ThoseAnswers.com. Schiff wanted the website to speak to more audiences. He also wanted to change the core concept of the website to a more free flowing point of information, where people could quickly share little tid-bits about their lives, and what makes them unique and special. This was always the idea behind the site, but he just wanted to make it easier and faster for people to share. The lengthy statements, although more in depth, were more time intensive, and Schiff wanted to create a forum in which knowledge could be found by the masses. As a result, on October 23nd, 2007, Schiff re-launched the site to the new domain name ThoseAnswers.com.