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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership.

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10 Startup Red Flags

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Lack of Technical Leadership In my definition, to call a company a tech startup, there must be some significant technology that gives you an advantage. leadership) problem. Stealth-mode" is generally unecessary and more likely harmful to your startup (and calling it stealth-mode calls you out as a noob).