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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

you can check out this story on Shout Atlanta. We then moved “the business” into my mother’s basement in Atlanta and tricked blackmailed convinced Danny Davis to join us. Raj canceled the rest of his trip and moved to Atlanta. Tip #3 to living your best life: Be all in on your dreams. Now to the matter at hand.

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A close call that we avoided thanks to our advisory board.

Jeff Hilimire

We had been talking for months about expanding into either Charlotte or South Florida. Both cities had growing digital marketing communities and we were sure that if we opened up shop in one of those cities that we’d benefit from new companies to prospect and new employees to bring on board.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was mistreated in public multiple times by employees. Being from Atlanta and Charlotte, respectively, Richard and I knew that our cities were both burgeoning areas for tech development and growth and were places filled with individuals with big ideas that could benefit from adding coding to their skillsets.