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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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eve is coming to Austin

Austin Startup

From Hawaii to Ho Chi Minh, we hail from 10 different countries (and counting). We have serial entrepreneurs, one of Vue’s core team members, engineers who contribute to Google projects, a mindfulness expert, a mixologist, two published authors, the list goes on. Since the pandemic began, eve has grown from 6 to 21 people.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. And brining in new general partners – like Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman – has certainly helped refine the vision of the firm by challenging some of our accepted wisdom. That’s healthy. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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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

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. James Slavet, a partner at Greylock, introduced me to Jeff Weiner. How do we make the transition?

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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. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. the previous year.

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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 changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. His name is Kai Budde. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. domain names to each other. In 2004 I began blogging. He’s German.