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Turning an Idea into a Business
Alex Marinov is a co-founder of Tennis Round, a website that connects tennis players and maps tennis courts anywhere in the United States.
In the winter of 2007, I was part of a Bearing Point team of consultants working on a project at Microsoft, when I got an email from my Managing Director saying that the client’s budget was suddenly cut and I was off the project.
I’d been commuting from San Francisco to Seattle for almost a year for a prior project, so I’d already given up my apartment. Instead of going back to San Francisco and waiting for the next assignment, I decided to change my commute. Perhaps living in Miami and flying to New York would be more fun? Read more from Alex Marinov