Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs

Bret Taylor, 27, and Jim Norris, 26

Company: FriendFeed

Funding: $5 million in February 2008 from the two co-founders and Benchmark Capital

Taylor and Norris left Google (GOOG) last July to start FriendFeed, a startup that's tackling the thorny issue of helping people organize the growing array of social networks and services they use. FriendFeed lets subscribers pull together on a single Web site everything their friends are doing on more than 30 sites. The duo, who met at Stanford, were part of the original team that developed Google Maps. Next up: Adding more filters to prevent information overload.

Advice: Says Taylor: "Getting things done is often more important than getting things right. When you are creating an entirely new product, getting things right without direct feedback from users is virtually impossible. The company that wins is the company that receives and responds to feedback the fastest. The best decision I have made so far is surrounding myself with smart people who think differently than I do."