Chuck Sacco had five kids at home, which isn't a good thing when you'd like to quit your job and start a business. So Sacco negotiated a severance package with his employer -- and a monthly consulting contract -- and co-founded PhindMe Mobile in 2007. "I was probably working 100 hours a week," says Sacco. It paid off. His startup merged with Movitas, a Bryn Mawr, Pa., tech firm, in 2009, and the company attracted $3 million in angel funding in 2010.
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