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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Sleeping on a futon and living off about $1,000 per month was how Ryan Allis said he and a co-founder started the email marketing business iContact without startup capital, while still in college.

Allis, whose company now employs about 300 people in offices in Morrisville, was part of a three-person panel of entrepreneurs under 30 years of age who are now running North Carolina-based companies.

The other panelists were Rachel Weeks, founder of the Durham-based collegiate apparel company School House, and James Freeman, a co-founder of Pembroke-based restaurant Mighty J's.

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