SAN FRANCISCO: Candace Locklear and Rebecca Fuller, formerly of SparkPR, have partnered to open their own hi-tech firm, Mighty PR, which focuses on social, mobile and cloud technologies.

“We've been surrounded by entrepreneurs for most of our careers, and we got the fever,” says Locklear, who was a managing director at SparkPR, where Fuller was a senior managing director.

“We are so deeply networked, so we have the confidence to go out on our own. And it's easy to start your own ...