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Build and test your web idea without programming | LaunchBit. 10 free & freemium online tools to bootstrap your startup - LaunchBit. Phil Libin - "So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?", by Founder Institute. Grooveshark’s Interview. Grooveshark CTO Tags: programmer, cofounder search, undergrad founder, hiring, VC funded, school worker, undergrad dropout, design-focused, major league player (Top 50 ranked site, Alexa top 1,000) Overview: Grooveshark started in 2006 with the goal of competing with piracy and becoming the #1 destination for listening to music online. Having raised less than $1 million, Grooveshark consumes more bandwidth than most Internet Service Providers with over 27 million active users streaming music.

Time Magazine has rated them as one of the 50 best web sites of 2010. Can you tell me about how all of this got started for you? I don’t know if there is one, specific answer to that question, but at the same time, I’m constantly in search of it. When you meet someone you can tell in five seconds whether or not they have it, and yet at the same time, you still can’t put it into words.

The first thing I ever did was in the second grade. My first, real entrepreneurial endeavor was in high school. Entrepreneur & Startup Expert Q&A, Resources and News | Sprouter. Quora. Hacker News | Ask. A VC.

Soaring on a Pig with Bread Wings - I'm a startup guy in Brooklyn who wants to make the world suck less; I create things, startups, communities, and cute logos. This is a collection of things I upvote. HumbledMBA - Jason Freedman's lessons learned...and relearned.