YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s time for the nation’s education leaders to start operating like scrappy entrepreneurs. The “benevolent” part means doing the right thing for the right reasons, for all stakeholders — in education, this means your teachers and other school employees, your students, their parents, etc. Don’t worry; it’s not as scary as it sounds.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

He owns and operates his pizza consulting business – Michael ShepherdConsulting, LLC – helping existing and aspiring pizza operators with their pizzerias. Michael Shepherd is also owner/president of 70X7 Incorporated that operates Six Hundred Downtown, a full service pizzeria, in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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., At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Comcast Corp.,

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2011

Hidden away in your office, shielded from others, do you deliver orders that must be followed, never considering what your employees might think? But they’ll never be presented if you don’t stir the pot by constantly listening to your employees and challenging them to think about ‘What if?’ Start going on business walkabouts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Employees can send a constant stream of information to their leaders — and that’s a problem that’s bleeding into face-to-face interactions, too. You may even have your HR or PR department provide brief scripts for employees who have trouble keeping their messages short. Then supervise the shortening process. updates from key people.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan. I also always made it clear to my employees how much I appreciated and valued them. After opening initial laboratory test stores in Florida and Ohio, a national roll-out is now underway.

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Up and Running

MAY 5, 2015

When MeCam set up manufacturing operations in Taiwan, CEO Drew Martin had never been there and had never met the people in charge of the operation face-to-face. ” Virtual meetings are undeniably cost-efficient when it comes to discussing business with clients, employees, and business partners.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 POST A JOB.

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