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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. And there are thousands of hosts that don’t have an efficient, dependable, affordable way to find them.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. CTO President Obama Megan Smith is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist.

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Analytics Career Advice: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles

Occam's Razor

It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. Strategic Solutions Consultant (clearly with hype like that this a role at a vendor!). To become a internal consultant on business analytics projects (beyond web analytics). Make no mistake this can be fun, you get to travel, meet new companies and people.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007.

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. I chose AWS because it offers so many different services, from hosting to databases to payments (FPS) to content delivery (CloudFront) - even e-commerce fulfillment (FWS).

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. Hosting by Breaker. This is Out of The Crisis. EB : I think we have done 1.3

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.