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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. 10- Elon Musk.

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TIME.com Redesign: a Responsive Global News Site | TIME.com

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Best Phones and Tablets at CES 2013. Latest From Our Partners. The Best Phones and Tablets at CES 2013 Facebook’s Graph Search Is the Future of Facebook Tech Best Inventions of the Year 2012 Playable Zamboni Google Doodle Lets You Become Every Minnesota Kid’s Hero. © 2013 Time Inc. our partners.

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Yanni Hufnagel: A Coaching Powerhouse

YoungUpstarts

Yanni Hufnagel, the assistant coach of the Harvard basketball program between 2009 and 2013 happened to be both. His broadcast partner, Ed Cohen, was one of the first to realize that Hufnagel’s talent would eventually take him into either sports broadcasting or basketball coaching.

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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Pete is managing partner for BMNT Partners and serves on the Board of Directors for Solace Power and Savonix.

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Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

In 2012 NYU partnered with the City University of NY (CUNY) and Columbia University, and in early 2013 they won a grant from the National Science Foundation to build the Innovation Corps in New York City and jointly create the the NYC Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN).

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Mentoring With LivePlan: Success Story

Up and Running

David Calderon, a teacher at the Villa Park High School in Villa Park City, California, participated in the BEC Boost with his students, and was the mentor to two of the competition’s grand prize winners. How did you hear about the California BEC Boost business plan competition?

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Why This New York Venture Capital Firm is Investing in Canada

David Teten

The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. In 2013, Startup Genome, a platform for analyzing startup communities, listed Toronto, Vancouver, and Waterloo, Ont., among the top 20 most active startup scenes in the world. Similarly, 31 per cent of Toronto’s CEOs have lived in Silicon Valley. now BlackBerry Ltd.,