2013 the United States under 30 years old entrepreneurial upstart

Declined Google's radius text | Jason Ankeny Most people start their careers in fast food restaurants, retail outlets, but Darian Shirazi is not "most people." When he was 15 years old, he bought a lot of computer accessories from Asia and put them on ebay for sale. This very innovative sales at that time attracted the attention of ebay, the appliance business giant, extended an olive branch to invite him to the company internship. After a two summer internship at ebay, Darian Shirazi began looking for new opportunities. In 2005, he became the first Facebook intern ever. Then he went to a new company with only 12 employees in Palo Alto, California, because it was close to home. "They are younger than me and doing very cool things." Shirazi recalls. "I don't know whether they will succeed or not," he admits. "Shirazi has been working on Facebook for two years, because his parents insisted that he leave for college. But at the time, a bigger business opportunity for him and the entire social network was coming. He dropped out in less than a year at the University of California, Berkeley, then traveled the world, returned to Silicon Valley in 2008, and founded Fwix in San Francisco. Fwix is actually doing a super native information aggregator, not only searching the web, but also finding business data, including registration licenses, the number of "praise" on Facebook, reviews on Yelp, Twitter postings and Foursquare check-in. Fwix's main function is to authorize information to media publishers and software developers, but Google is more intent on Fwix. "Google is trying to focus on developing local business data to lead a new generation," he said. "I think that's really a good idea, so why don't we build our business," said Shirazi, 26. So he rejected Google's 35 million dollar takeover. In the spring of 2012, Fwix changed its name to RADIUS FDI, leveraging its vast local database to provide optimized real-time information for small American business sales teams. "It's easy to reject a Google takeover because I've been fortunate enough to make money on Facebook and never have to worry about money," he said. "A lot of people aren't that lucky, they can't keep up with Facebook, but I think you have to do that if you're going to have a huge success," Shirazi said. "Now that Shirazi is confidently planning for the future of the radius, he is ready to collaborate with Dunn & Bradsreet's information services to provide an intelligent sales platform for corporate customers." RADIUS provides sales team Services to about 26 million small businesses in the United States, bringing together different Web resources, discovering opportunities from start-ups or already sized companies, and providing advanced tools to guide customer consumption, such as stand-alone SaaS software services, toand integrated services with Salesforce.com. The information that RADIUS collects includes geographic location, vertical domain, website dynamics, consumer comments, rating, advertising costs, revenue, and company size, which customers can use to evaluate the company. It also provides up-to-date business information, including phone numbers, email addresses, owner names, total number of employees, and benefits. The starting price of the service is 99 dollars a month. "The information we provide can bring huge business opportunities for marketing and sales companies, helping them to effectively target audiences for product services." "We can also improve our relationships with existing customers and reduce the number of spam calls," said Shirazi, the current RADIUS CEO. For me personally, we are creating our own industry, but also to contribute to the community. Earlier this year, RADIUS received 12.4 million dollars from Anglo Express. He did not disclose the company's business earnings, but said that at the end of 2013, corporate profits were planned to quadruple, while developing more sophisticated algorithms, data-filtering mechanisms and business segmentation guidance. "I like startups and I like new ideas," he said. Shirazi said, "This is what I want to insist on for the rest of my life." ”