Technology entrepreneurs of past eras took two years to build a product, hire a staff and figure out whether there was any real market for their service. But today all that typically takes only a few months as founders cycle quickly through different ideas until they find one that sticks.
Eskender Aseged was running a catering business when officials from San Francisco City Hall came to him in 2010 with a proposal: Would he be up for opening a restaurant in the city's poorest neighborhood?
While some high-tech companies got their start in garages, a new crop of business founders, including Nick Miller of Baltimore, is giving fresh meaning to the term "garage entrepreneur."
