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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

We were not forced to lay anyone off and actually added employees during the pandemic. Thankfully our employees have been wonderful during these challenging times, but keeping morale and positive energy during these crazy times has also been challenging. 8- Getting into the Mediavine advertising program. Photo Credit: Justin A.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses. Mentorship programs : Association of Yale Alumni Mentorship Program , Yale Office of Career Strategy Workshops. Yale has one of the best drama programs in the world. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

As employees work together to achieve this grand goal, they’ll come up with innovative solutions and new ideas. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. This mission is shared openly on our website, with potential franchisees, customers, and employees.

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

online.wsj.com

At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Connecticut. Connecticut. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc.,

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Stefanova’s entrepreneurship experience includes being the Founder of Delta Business Consulting, an idea incubator company for start-ups in the technology and telecommunication industry and being one of the early employees at AdRelevance, an Internet Advertising Measurement Company. Time: 6:30pm Registration, 7:00pm Program.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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Empowering Women And People Of Color In The Workplace

Duct Tape Marketing

He worked his way up from a male sort all the way to postmaster general in the state of Connecticut. If you're fortunate enough, some companies, um, or organizations have formal mentoring programs. So I am born and raised in a very small town in Connecticut where I was the only minority K through 12. A hundred percent.