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My first business was an accident.
When I was in college in the late ’90s, I built a membership website for a student organization. It was a lot like Facebook, but pre-dated Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts by a few years. I released it as an open-source product — and it became a huge hit. It was so successful that, even though it was free, people started offering to pay me for it, requesting customizations and features so they could use it for their sites.
There’s a lot of debate about whether you should give your product away for free. Over on the Startups
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