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Stephanie Breedlove, Co-founder of Care.com Homepay, Provides Entrepreneurial Advice on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

Stephanie Breedlove founded Breedlove & Associates in 1992. The post Stephanie Breedlove, Co-founder of Care.com Homepay, Provides Entrepreneurial Advice on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills. Today, Breedlove is an angel investor with the Central Texas Angel […].

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Let's get started. (00:29): This is John Jantsch. It was crazy.

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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80% of success is just showing up

Austin Startup

Allen Tsai, co-founder of Tastebud, had about 5 minutes notice for his 5 minute demo with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Allen Tsai , co-founder of Tastebud , didn’t know who was coming to Capital Factory on Friday, but he still arrived around 7 am to make sure he was first in line to find out.

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Those Beautiful Nest Eggs

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991. In a company full of talent (the founders of eBay, WebTV, Android all came from GM), Tony stood out even at a very young age. Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

5-My co-founders’ wife came up with it. As much as I would like to take credit for the name it was my co-founders’ wife that thought of it. The thoughts were LI Shades Co, Island Shades, things like that. I named my business, ReCreate—a transformation company focused on optimizing business and leader.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.