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12 Questions: Meet Connie Carlson (USA)

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Connie lives and works in Northern Minnesota. My husband of 23 years and 22 year old son and I live in beautiful Northern Minnesota and own a small hobby farm in the country, close to beautiful Lake Superior. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. I live in Minnesota. March 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm. After taking the time to read over these comments today, I have a couple things to add to the melee: 1. I’ll sum up by drawing an analogy. We get a lot of snow here. Epic snow many times.

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