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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

Hearpreneur

#13- STEM accessibility Photo Credit: Dr Mark Coster As a scientist who left his job after 20 years in academia to found a website dedicated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) toys and activities, to make STEM accessible was my main motivation. Living in Hawaii, I'm surrounded by natural beauty that constantly inspires me.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction.

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Silicon Valley Uber Alles? I think so… Some of their Secret Weapons.

Scalable Startup

Stanford - Not sure this even needs explaining, but Stanford has been a wole new entity in the past 20 years, beyond anyones imagination in wealth creation, funding, computer science, a recruiting engine into SV then on to local companies, pride, confidence, location. That’s OK if you plan for it, “engineer” for it.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. I’d rather be solving intellectual challenges and figuring out key strategies, not debating which employees should get a promotion, or configuring project timelines.

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

online.wsj.com

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I don’t actually have any employees. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We also cut staff from 92 to 38 in one day and then immediately afterward to 33 employees. My family went without me.