Godfrey, 32, and cofounder Robert McLaughlin, 31, are taking a different tack from their competitors.
He got a call from William Fishman, cofounder of Automatic Retailers of America (now Aramark).
Coincidentally, one ShoreBank cofounder, Jan Piercy, was a Wellesley College roommate of Hillary Clinton.
But many entrepreneurs--including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg--do turn to family and friends for startup funds.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin was spotted driving a Tesla around LinkedIn headquarters on Thursday afternoon.
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Cofounder Gavin Uhma has a gaming background which has helped them develop real-time technology for GoInstant.
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"There is a certain intrigue factor, " says Tom Sosnoff, cofounder and president of Thinkorswim.
Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley visited Facebook on his recent swing through the Valley.
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Company cofounder Alex Poon said essentially Bonfire had created eBay for users' cell phones.
Samuel Adams (SAM) cofounder, Jim Koch, teamed up with leading microlender, Accion, to start changing that.
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Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) cofounder Paul Allen's Octopus.
Ever wondered why Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is not on The Forbes 400 list?
"Nothing is sacred, " says Parker Harris, his buddy, cofounder and head of Salesforce technology.
It has become the world's largest privately held software company, headed by cofounder Jim Goodnight.
Her clients included the designer Diane Von Furstenberg and Akio Morita, the cofounder of Sony.
And for young tech companies, that element is unmistakable: what you need is a technical cofounder.
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One is look for a technical cofounder, not just an early employee, and give commensurate equity.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin pointed out that half the Google Print engineering team is French.
Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen continues to score big in real estate, tech and energy.
Wink's cofounder, Brian Dougherty, adapted the technology he had created for his prior company, Geoworks.
It had long been a dream of the company's cofounder, engineer Alfred W. Fielding.
"We didn't feel it was a viable vessel, " says John Merrifield, cofounder of the boatmaker.
Wink's cofounder, Brian Dougherty, adapted the technology he had created for his previous company, Geoworks.
"The attraction in New Mexico is Val Kilmer, " says Avi Lerner, cofounder of Nu Image.
Take one radical idea: Jini, the latest software brainchild of Sun Microsystems' cofounder, Bill Joy.
The cofounder is Shawn Budde, who worked the subprime lending business for Capital One.
"We haven't seen a spike like this since just after September 11, " says cofounder Claire Cavanah.
Josh James is the cofounder of Omniture, an online marketing and Web analytics company.
Stiglitz is also cofounder and executive director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia.
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