CHAPTER 10
The idea behind Moo – a business card website that now has hundreds of thousands of customers in 180 countries, came to founder Richard Moross when he was working at a design agency. He told his then-boss about the idea, offering to fund it himself and give the advertising maestro equity in the business, in exchange for a free desk to work from. His boss said no. ‘Facepalm’, as Moross, who decided to quit his day job and give entrepreneurship a try anyway puts it, ‘I’m pretty sure he regrets that now.’
Moross was 25 when he first started creating a website, in 2004. He’d never had ambitions to start a business but, after leaving university and spending six months working in finance at the BBC, his best friend’s brother asked ...
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