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Doug Young, Greensboro, NC

Doug Young, partners start e-mail delivery firm - Doug Young, the Triad's uber-entrepreneur, is quickly rallying two local computer jocks to start a new company to deliver large e-mail files to compete with overnight mail.

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Doug Young, Greensboro, NC

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  1. Young, partners start e-mail delivery firm Mick Normington The Business Journal GREENSBORO -- Doug Young, the Triad's uber-entrepreneur, is quickly rallying two local computer jocks to start a new company to deliver large e-mail files to compete with overnight mail. The company, Live Cargo Inc., was formed two weeks ago. It will offer companies and consumers a way to readily and easily transfer bulky e-mails with lots of attachments. "People have the ability to send lots of data now, but e-mail systems can't keep up with that," said Eric Swinson, a software developer and partner in Live Cargo. The startup will take digital videos, photos, MP3 files or legal documents weighted down with attachments then break up those bulky e-mail files into smaller files to send them on to their recipient and rebuild the file. "Macro attachments rarely get through firewalls or spam-detection software," Swinson said. "Our technology is firewall friendly." Swinson and partner Rick Reddell had worked together in the 1990s in Greensboro developing TextileWeb, a textile e-commerce system that they sold to e-commerce giant VerticalNet Inc. Last spring, the two friends were talking about what they were going to do next and Swinson mentioned an idea he had developed in 1997 to help companies with large legal documents send those documents via e-mail in encrypted chunks across the Internet. Then Reddell attended a meeting of the new software roundtable of the Piedmont Entrepreneurs Network. He met Young there and shared their idea. Young liked it, and agreed to provide a modest amount of startup funding to form the company and get the idea rolling. The partners are now looking for office space in Greensboro. Young is founder of GuardiaNet Systems in Greensboro, a software privacy and archiving firm that he recently sold to 3M. In recent years Young, a Greensboro native, has started up and successfully sold off seven companies for more than $70 million. "It was really a blessing to have somebody like Doug say he wants to be involved and invest in our idea," Reddell said.

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