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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

It’s hard to believe that the genius behind the co-creation of software giant Microsoft never finished college, but it’s clear he didn’t need his diploma to do big things. This risky decision to leave school truly paid off when Gates and Allen partnered up to create Microsoft in 1975.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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[Review] The Good Fail

YoungUpstarts

He’s lost 11 jobs in 12 months, been sued by the attorney general of the state of Washington , and his name and reputation dragged in the mud. After all, Latman has seen his startup company Microworkz go from the brink of tremendous success to being shut down, have himself enter personal bankruptcy and his personal life destroyed.

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

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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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. Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. So we have to think of ourselves as partners.