Harjeet Taggar, web entrepreneur in San Francisco, California, USA. Founder of boso and auctomatic.

Here's my story so far:

June 1985
Acquainted with fresh air for the first time.

June 2000
Went on a tour of South Africa playing rugby. Ate a lot.

June 2001
Sat GCSE exams like a good trained monkey and left with 7A*'s and 2B's.

June 2003
Sat A Level exams with even more trained monkey experience and left with 5A's.

October 2003
Started law degree at Oxford University.

July 2004
Worked a summer internship at the Inland Revenue Head Office, London. Learnt how to despise the rich and burn them with daily interest payable on unknown tax liabilities.

October 2004
Genuine life-changing moment. After much badgering from Kul decided to go along to the Young Enterprise induction meeting and founded my first company, boso.

February 2005
Decided to bulk up the CV and got into a bunch of student societies, each of which seemed important at the time but not so much now.

March 2005
Joined a student society that matters as PR officer - Oxford Entrepreneurs

May 2005
Nominated in a national student survey as a Freshminds "One to watch".

June 2005
Thought I wanted to be a corporate lawyer and worked at a bunch of firms - Lovells, Linklaters, Cleary Gottlieb and Skadden Arps. Accepted a full time employment offer from Latham & Watkins.

May 2006
Sat Law finals and came away with a degree.

June 2006
Cancelled my job offer at Latham & Watkins and started working full-time on boso

August 2006
Raised angel funding round of £200k for boso

October 2006
Featured on a national documentary about young entrepreneurs on Channel 4

November 2006
Became the first UK entrepreneur to get investment from Y Combinator

January 2007
Headed out to San Francisco for Y Combinator. Changed our idea and started working on auctomatic.

May 2007
Merged with Patrick to start work on a new and improved version of auctomatic.

August 2007
Raised more funding from Paul Buccheit and Chris Sacca

December 2007
Finally got my O1 visa to work in the USA.

March 2008
Announced something?