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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