{"id":253,"date":"2011-10-14T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:17:34","slug":"rob-durkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/rob-durkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Durkin: FusePump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rob Durkin, 25 <br>Company:<\/strong> FusePump <br><strong>Web:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusepump.com\" target='\"_blank\"' rel=\"noopener\">www.fusepump.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just two years after its foundation, online marketing specialist FusePump is on target to achieve &pound;2m turnover, with a plethora of big names including John Lewis, Waitrose, Sky and Thomas Cook already signed up to its leading-edge service, which offers data feeds to fuse client&rsquo;s product information. 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