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Boston-based entrepreneur Chris Keller shares his journey from Failed VC-Backed Startup to Success with followup.cc

· jeff

Chris Keller tells us his startup story as a developers hacking on the evenings and weekends to build useful apps.  From checking email on cell phone's via SMS, to creating a social network for tennis, Chris has built some useful apps on his way to FollowUp.

After years of using FollowUp, his friends and early users started telling him, "Go charge for this, because I want to pay you for it!" (10:30)

"I would actually argue that it's easier to be motivated if you have a good idea you're into, if you don't have a lot around you, because there's less distraction" (34:20)