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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

Up and Running

The contest was sponsored by Palo Alto Software , which provided free access to LivePlan , its cloud-based business planning software, to all of the Boost entrants. “ So who were the hard-working businessmen and women behind the winning business plans? . ” Business Planning' A+ all the way.”

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. And she bought a computer because she wanted to computerize her business. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship.

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CA Voter Guide

Venture Chronicles

What really bothers me about initiatives like this is that the supporters use the most corrosive kind of political cynicism to enact something that benefits Sacramento insiders who perpetuate the very thing that they say is not working.