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Ben Guild

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Ben Guild is a serial entrepreneur from Boston, MA. Left school at age 17 and started Mobile17, a website for making ringtones from MP3 songs and more.

After receiving subsequent press from TechTV, Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, and many newspaper/online outlets and publications, the site exploded from viral growth. Through many Slashdot mentions on Ben’s personal weblog, the traffic exchange introduced him to Kevin Rose and helped craft the initial audience for Digg.com.

Ben is located in and originally from Boston, MA. He became a part-time Harvard student in 2009.

Milestones

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  Ben Guild added a position as Founder at Dubspace. (5/17/09)
  Posted 6/2/09 at 12:06pm
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  Ben Guild added a position as Founder at Mobile17. (2/5/05)
  Posted 5/27/09 at 10:18pm
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  Ben Guild — Deadpooled SmashTheTONES, launched Mobile17 as replacement. (5/10/05)
  Posted 1/27/11 at 11:33am via benguild.com
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  Ben Guild — Launched "SmashTheTONES" experiment. (2/5/10)
  Posted 1/27/11 at 11:31am via benguild.com

Videos

Sources

1. smashTheTONES… my free MP3 to Ringtone service. (benguild.com) [edit]
2. Mobile17 launched. (benguild.com) [edit]