After that broad introduction, it’d be best to start back from the beginning. Coming up in the next day or so - an interview with both people running this site.

This is a good place to start because both David and Brian came from pretty weird circumstances to wind up in the same place together. They both individually believed before joining the team that coming to company (Which we’ll refer to as A* from now on…) was going to be a step towards stability and normalcy, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

The next posts will reveal where they both started out, how they came to find out about A*, and where their lives would soon lead…

With soaring IPOs and boatloads of venture capital to be had for sharp entrepreneurs, there are tons of ideas, websites, and applications that make it, and make it big. But there are many other individuals and companies that don’t make it. We fall into the latter category. Although our ideas were exciting and unique, our passion was undeniable, and we had the ambition to truly change the world, our beloved ideas sadly did not come to fruition. We were young and inexperienced, but we had a professional experience that was unlike any other, which many people that knew us couldn’t even believe.

Our journey in living the tech start-up life began in Orange County, CA, specifically in Yorba Linda. With only a handful of people, a few refurbished iMacs, and a tiny office outfitted with bright retina-burning red carpet, we met in an unusual but similar way to help forge a new company under a young but charismatic owner. While we had internal projects that remained on the back burner, we paid the bills by developing and marketing a handful of websites for mainly small businesses that helped us bide the time until we could focus solely on out passion projects…and make it big.
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