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March 2, 2012 11:44 pm GMT

(Founder Stories) RunKeeper: Striving To Becoming The Facebook For Health

Runkeeper Video #2.movHaving launched Runkeeper in 2008 with the help of "moonlighting engineers"before closing a $10 million Series B round in late 2011, RunKeeper's co-founder, Jason Jacobs speaks from experience when describingthe whiplash entrepreneurs face when stepping out on their own.In episode II of his Founder Stories conversation with host Chris Dixon, Jacobs characterizes the adventure this way. "The day you leave your job and the hourglass starts turning upside down in your savings that is a really scary, awful, stressful, exhilarating, tremendously exciting feeling. And then that basically doesnt stop."

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