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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

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Additionally, she is the founder of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, a non-profit organization created to break down systemic barriers and foster systemic change for women and other underserved communities. And sure, we did it with starting as a company that had almost no technology because in 1992, you could barely mode something.

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Predictions, Prognostications, and The Future

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It’s followed by a comment by Lawrence Wright, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and author of the incredible and timely book The End of October. As I worked on The Startup Community Way and got my mind into how complex systems work, I concluded that change has to come from the bottom up, not the top down.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

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I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Your employees — and the community as a whole — will appreciate that you’re willing to sacrifice company time to make the world a better place. Be generous.

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CU Boulder’s New Venture Challenge 10th Anniversary

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I was involved in the early years (1992 – 1996) as a judge and funded a number of companies that went through the MIT $100K (which was called the MIT $10K at the time.) Over a decade ago, Brad Bernthal and Phil Weiser were putting real energy into Boulder Startup Community. Bernthal and Jason grabbed this and ran with it.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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background I wanted to serve our community with I.T. In 1992, I published my first best-selling book, The On-Purpose Person, Making Your Life Make Sense. The Newburgh-Beacon ferry connected the railroad to a community known for having the highest crime rate in NYS, the City of Newburgh NY. Photo Credit: Mazdak Mohammadi.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Larry Gold – 2/18, 6:15pm

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He’s been a professor at CU Boulder since 1980 and was the chairman of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department from 1988 to 1992. So – when you think of the evolution of the Boulder startup community around life sciences, Larry has been involved since the beginning.

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Aaron Lupuloff And The Corky Kell Classic Focus On Furthering Education

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Athletics in the school setting is integral to the health of the school, and it provides events that excite the community. The Corky Kell Classic is a Georgia football tradition that started in Atlanta in 1992 — named after Wheeler’s former head football coach.

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