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My first business partner, Raj Choudhury

Jeff Hilimire

I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. I can ensure you that he had more fun in his one semester at UNC-Charlotte than I did during my entire time. And then Geocities was created, allowing people to easily publish websites on this new thing called the Internet, and we shifted our focus there. Did we do something wrong?

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

One of the main reasons why my partners and I started TopFire Media is to fill a void within the franchise arena. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. LittleThings.com was started because there was a real void of feel-good, uplifting content on the internet.