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Serial entrepreneur, Kevin o' Connor's latest venture-FindTheBest, a company that offers comparison on everything from credit cards to the golf course. Kevin was the founder of FindTheBest to DoubleClick, which Google ended up buying for $ 3 billion.
In this episode, the founder of the stories about ' Connor takes us back to its days of DoubleClick, where he joined Atlanta's Internet Security Systems in its infancy. He tells host Chris Dixon, 20-year-old college drop-out had to do with his signing with the launch. Speaking of those first days, '' Connor said: "I don't think any of us realized that it would be worth billions of dollars".
Below about ' Connor discusses life after ISS and the way in which he and Dwight Merriman, took the road create a DoubleClick. He said two quit his job, spent six months, brainstorming products and initially excluded from the job site services. How about ' Connor tells Dixon, two "major" in the wrong pitching prospects.
Dusting yourself off, they struck gold when determining dozens of ideas from the ' Connor in the basement. The idea of DoubleClick was crowned the winner and after taking center stage on the ' Connor said: "I went up and I told my wife ... The search ended, tomorrow we start the business.
Be sure to watch both videos for additional considerations, along with past episodes of the founder of the stories that can be found here, especially one with former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan.
Kevin o' Connor serves as CEO of FindTheBest.com, a website designed to assist consumer decisions online. Before Kevin founded on FindTheBest ' Connor Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in ...
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