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Startups take a long time to bake

Building a better mousetrap often takes longer than originally anticipated In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco interviews Tim Musgrove, CEO and founder of TextDigger, a company developing advanced semantic solutions for the Web, including hosted semantic search, automated content tagging and topic generation, and optimized keyword generation.The San Jose, Cali-based startup was founded by a group of former CNET employees and executives who developed patented linguistic technologies that, today, are used to enhance the content on CNet. BF: You have been an entrepreneur since 1999 when you started SmartShop and then you sold it to CNet in 2002. So you definitely went through the boom and the bust. What was your biggest lesson you learned through that experience? TM: What we've learned with SmartShop is that there are ... [ Read more ]

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