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Building a B2B marketplace from the basement—and selling it.
Business milestones
Ken founded VendorSeek in 2001 as a one-person, bootstrapped business. The model connected businesses seeking professional services with vendors prepared to serve them.
He built the company into a multimillion-dollar B2B lead-generation marketplace before its 2008 sale to QuinStreet. The experience became a practical foundation for the companies he built next.
Why it matters
That first business required choices about audience, demand, marketplace dynamics, and the operating discipline needed to turn an idea into a company.
