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Previously, Juan was the CEO and Co-Founder of TeRespondo.com. TeRespondo.com  became the largest online search advertising in Latin America and was sold to Yahoo! Inc. in 2005.<ref>[http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001821.html seroundtable.com]</ref> The project underwent some difficulties and had to be shut down around 2000 to 2001;<ref>[http://www.mo.com/juan-diego-calle-dot-co mo.com]</ref> despite that the traffic of one of their meta-search engines continued to grow. They gave the project another try, this time with less start-up money, a point that Mr. Calle notes can often be an asset to small start-ups. At that time, [[Google]], [[Yahoo]], and [[Overture.com]], were in an all-out war for international dominance; Juan recognized that he couldn't compete with these juggernauts but that he held a coveted expansion market, thus he sold to Yahoo in 2005.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2010/november-december.htm DNJournal.com]</ref>
 
Previously, Juan was the CEO and Co-Founder of TeRespondo.com. TeRespondo.com  became the largest online search advertising in Latin America and was sold to Yahoo! Inc. in 2005.<ref>[http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001821.html seroundtable.com]</ref> The project underwent some difficulties and had to be shut down around 2000 to 2001;<ref>[http://www.mo.com/juan-diego-calle-dot-co mo.com]</ref> despite that the traffic of one of their meta-search engines continued to grow. They gave the project another try, this time with less start-up money, a point that Mr. Calle notes can often be an asset to small start-ups. At that time, [[Google]], [[Yahoo]], and [[Overture.com]], were in an all-out war for international dominance; Juan recognized that he couldn't compete with these juggernauts but that he held a coveted expansion market, thus he sold to Yahoo in 2005.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2010/november-december.htm DNJournal.com]</ref>
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Juan has described his family and himself as serial entrepreneurs. His father was in the beer business, and Juan's first business was installing speakers in friends cars in his family's garage.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2010/05/16/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-co-our-exclusive-interview-with-the-ceo-juan-calle/ TheDomains]</ref>
    
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