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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Some specialize in one arena, like green technology.

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than tw Shahab o years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. CoFoundersLab makes matches (for free) via its online platform or through in-person Meetups. who is the founder of Inside Edge Solutions, on the faculty of Washington University in St.

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Finding The Perfect Startup Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. CoFoundersLab makes matches (for free) via its online platform or through in-person Meetups. who is the founder of Inside Edge Solutions, on the faculty of Washington University in St.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Seagate—Al Shugart. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. I was mostly just doing.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. So these are some checklists.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. Before venture, equity financing was seen as a pretty unfriendly business.