When Mahesh Chand first got to the U.S. and started working as a developer, he pitched some articles about software development to a bunch of print tech magazines and got shot down at scale because of his then not-yet-great command of the English language. He said "eff it" and started a website to publish his articles.

That idea has grown into C# Corner -- a platform for IT and software professionals that draws 30 million unique visits annually and boasts 3 million active users and will report $700,000 in ad revenue this year after flipping the monetization switch on this May.

C# Corner is one of many companies Mahesh has started but clearly he's incorporating those lessons of failure into something pretty cool. If you listen carefully you may actually hear us (a developer and marketer, respectively) agree on how marketing and engineer have to work together.