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The Perils of Founder Fighting

Both Sides of the Table

At a young age I watched her open a bakery, which in the early 80′s was ahead of its time in serving croissants, gourmet coffee and high-end, homemade cakes, cheesecakes and french pastries for our small town of Sacramento, California (Carmichael, if you know the area). If you give up after this you’re not an entrepreneur.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. 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. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur.

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

View from Seed

The smaller size also allows the space for teams to get to know each other within the cohort and develop a true sense of community and friendship on a founder-to-founder level, which has proven to be an invaluable resource during and after the program. . You want to see some signals of success before signing your name on the dotted line.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

Both Sides of the Table

He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. The venture capital firm that bears his name. “Maybe it’s time for KP to shorten its name to K?

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Everyone’s Business: Drinking on the job, Overpaid NBA Players, Offshore Accounts

Up and Running

CNN Money put together a slideshow of 60-and-above entrepreneurs. It might sound strange, but there are some huge perks to being an older entrepreneur starting a business. So … There’s this guy by the name of Richard Branson who owns a little business called Virgin Group. He’s kind of big deal.

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The 50 Top Startups at SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

Listed in alphabetical order by category name, here are all the participants for this exciting competition (along with links to their recent interviews on Medium). Also, if you are an entrepreneur, check out all the cool panels and presentations in the Entrepreneurship and Startups Track , which runs March 8–12 at SXSW.