Entrepreneurs live by their own code

Neal Sales-Griffin and Mike McGee faced tough choices in spring 2011: They could work for the president’s re-election campaign, split up for different opportunities, or work on their 3-week-old startup idea.

Ultimately, the two men chose the last and riskiest option, co-founding Chicago-based coding and entrepreneurship school The Starter League.

The journey to that decision involved ignoring advice from business veterans, turning down the president — and persuading Sales-Griffin’s dad to move out of his apartment so Sales-Griffin and McGee could work together day and night.

“We couldn’t stop this idea,” McGee said. “And we went for it.”

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