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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. GreenPal’s vision is to become the operating system and platform that makes the lawn care industry run smoothly.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Looking forward to chatting.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. I was a Ph.D. student working towards becoming a research scientist with a large R&D lab. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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

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net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). ” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Elaine Kenny.

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