Every Wednesday after school, we went around and picked up all the litter. Didn't get that

much attention from the girls, but the janitors loved us.

What did you end up spending money on looking back that you kind of regret?

We invested heavily in...

My name is Ryan Buckley. I live in Walnut Creek in the East Bay of San Francisco. I am

serial and also a bit of a parallel entrepreneur started out my career immediately after

business school building scripted.com, a marketplace for freelance writers, find them, hire them, manage

large and small, but most of our clients tended to leverage multiple writers doing hundreds

if not thousands of unique pieces every month. I exited that business and fell back on

a side project that I had started a number of years ago called tofer.t0ofr.com, which

is in the email guessing sales tech lead generation space. Basically, you give it someone's name,

the company they work at and it will find the right email address for that person. It is

really, really useful for sales reps, for recruiters, and most of my customers, my best customers

are actually using the API to directly tap into the data and the scripts that will do a

lot of real time searching for email addresses as well. Then I got a few other businesses running

on the side trying to get multiple income streams spun up now that I don't have the security

of a day job. Maybe non-technical people who are listening, what's API? The API stands

for application programming interface, which actually does a decent job of describing

what it is, but you could think of it as a port or a connector into a website that makes

it much easier for you to put information in and pull information out. It's something

that's built for other websites to connect to it. For example, Facebook does not allow

you to have their API right, so people can't get that information even though almost everyone

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