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Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena didn’t necessarily know he wanted to start a business, but he did have a clear concept of what he wanted. Read More

Wufoo founder Kevin Hale hadn’t intended on starting a business. He studied Modern American Literature, and an interdisciplinary degree called Digital Arts that saw him doing work for museums, and designing musical instruments. Hale originally intended to enroll in graduate school. Read More

Many startup founders look to their parents for inspiration, and GoInstant founder Jevon MacDonald is no exception. “I knew early on that I really couldn’t ‘work for’ anyone else,” he said in interview. Read More

COLOURlovers founder Darius A Monsef IV always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, but he wasn’t always sure what that meant. “I was the young kid running the car washing service, or using my allowance to buy lots of candy at the store and selling it at a mark-up to the kids around my neighborhoo Read More

ClearFit founder Ben Baldwin always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, although he wasn’t always sure that this attitude was a good thing. “I’ve never really fit into the way other people think/act and I have a real problem with authority,” Baldwin said in interview. Read More

Twitpic founder Noah Everett is no stranger to start-ups. He founded his first startup in his late teens, a music site called Indiefy. “It was a way for independent artists to sell their music online.” Everett said in interview. Read More

BumpTop founder Anand Agarawala didn’t always want to be an entrepreneur. In fact, he initially felt that business and wealth would get in the way of raw creativity. But building a business with close friends changed all that. Read More

After starting five businesses, including mobile content portal Web2Mobile, Ian founded Clickfree in 2005. Clickfree provides automatic backup software to the consumer PC market, and the idea was inspired by an interaction with Collins’ mother at Christmas. Read More

Entrepreneur Ash Maurya has been building companies for over a decade, and during that time he’s always tried to find a better, faster way to build successful products. Maurya said he’s always had the entrepreneurial bug, and he attributes that to the way his parents raised him. Read More

BlueCat Networks founder Michael Hyatt went to university with the intention of becoming a doctor, and graduated in a recession with “no money and little hope of finding a job.” He started enterprise risk management company Dyadem with his brother Richard Hyatt, which ended up selling to IHS many y Read More