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Entrepreneurs rarely set out to create jobs.

"That's a side effect of creating a company," says Eric Dobson, founder of TrakLok, the shipping container company often cited as a recent high-tech startup success story in East Tennessee.

TrakLok has raised more than $4 million in venture capital within the last four years, and was one of the first companies to receive money through the state-backed TNInvestco program. The company in 2010 merged with Telesensors, a Knoxville developer of wireless sensors.

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