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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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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

Redhawk is an entrepreneur that embraces sustainable business. In some cities, such as Sacramento, this is already the case and has been for years. Microgrids can provide energy for individual businesses or small communities. Someone who understands the gravity of these issues and is working towards solutions is Matt Redhawk.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

Up and Running

One such instructor, David Calderon, mentored two of the three grand prize entrepreneurs; Calderon recently granted an interview to Bplans’ own Caroline Cummings on how his teams found such great success. ” Ismael’s dream is to become an entrepreneur. “We hope to have the company up and running by March 2014.”

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What Rejected Cities Can Learn From Amazon’s Feedback And 15 Tips For Attracting Business Investment To Your Community) 

YoungUpstarts

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “ Cities across America have been vying for the privilege of hosting Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, which is expected to bring with it up to 50,000 high-paying jobs. Have a dashboard.

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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. What are you going to do?

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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. My parents weren’t rich (there were no rich kids in Sacramento) but we had more than most in this country.

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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. He wrote a piece about using community building to develop your business. Who says you have to be some young hotshot to start a business?