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How Women Can Achieve Success In Male Dominated Professions

YoungUpstarts

However, once I got married, my career path changed, as my husband’s job was transferred back up to Connecticut (where I’m originally from). In Connecticut I chose to make the transition from working at a large public accounting firm, to a small privately owned company. Channel Your Strengths and Weaknesses.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Keep salaries smaller, smaller smaller. Keep salaries smaller, smaller smaller. Cisco was a husband and wife team.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) ’ Maybe this article is a little too simplistic, a fairy tale. Maybe I’m wrong or just know all the wrong people.