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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

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It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. When I was working on the Google Maps team, I got to know how powerful mobile mapping was, and what mobile was capable of doing. It’s usually a process. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

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Before starting my dance company in late 2018, I was gung-ho about giving 40+ years of my life away to the federal government. I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. #11- Exploring various possibilities. Photo Credit: Chae Reid.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. Principal Investigator: Eniko Enikov University of Arizona. Mobidemics : Using Mobile Gaming for Healthcare. Lessons Learned.

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

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which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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RipCode Acquired by RGB Networks

Austin Startup

a privately held developer of solutions for mobile IP video. RGB will incorporate RipCode’s technology into its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) enabling video service providers to cost-effectively deliver services to their subscribers on TVs, PCs and mobile devices. “As

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Protecting Voting Rights: Good for America, Good for American Business

Reid Hoffman

“A government of the people, by the people. It’s an American issue, because free and fair elections, with a high degree of civic participation, are ultimately how our government achieves its moral legitimacy. As I’ve written in the past , it’s what creates the “consent of the governed.”

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