#8 Michael and Kass Lazerow

Michael and Kass Lazerow are the founders of Buddy Media, a privately held company that offers some of the world's largest brands social media solutions, which sold to Salesforce.com last year for more than $800 million. Before founding Buddy Media, they launched Golf.com together, which they eventually sold to Time Inc.

#7 Lisa Connell and Frank Sinton

After starting video aggregator MeFeedia in 2007, Connell and Sinton took extreme measures to balance work and family. The company is based in Burbank, Calif. but they moved their three kids across the country to Ormond Beach, where they bought a beachfront home. Sinton is CEO, so he commutes to Burbank and Connell heads sales efforts from a home office.

#6 Erika Trautman and Cameron McCaddon

Erika Trautman and Cameron McCaddon fled the high cost of the Bay Area to launch their startup, FlixMaster, in the relatively affordable locale of Boulder, Colo. where they joined the 2011 class of TechStars, an incubator. The site is a cloud-based video editing and publishing platform that enables content creators to build dynamic, interactive videos with drag-and-drop ease. This startup has caught the eyes of biggies like Sony.

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