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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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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. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. That leadership trait is just not innate in everybody. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible.

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