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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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

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I had a business class seat due to status of flying a lot and my family was in economy. We had also just been upgrade from London to Baltimore. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. ” I was on a flight last year from DC to LAX. ” But move them she did.

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HealthDataInsights Sells for $400 Million. Big Win for GRP Partners.

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The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. The science of finding recoveries is based on computer-based algorithms that flag high-potential errors and trained technicians that then review these claims. It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Some of our most successful deals have been in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Baltimore and London. We also run annual CEO summits and topical discussions groups in marketing, technology, recruiting and the like. Yet we know big businesses can be built in many places by talented entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

The Skyworks Solutions growth is largely due to its key involvement in IoT, payments on mobile devices, and Internet connectivity. GoPro’s High Tech Wearable Cameras. Apple is one of the highest earning companies in the tech industry.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Biggest Accomplishment in 2016

Hearpreneur

My story of transitioning from a Columbia MBA to a chef & consultant was featured on The Huffington Post (in both written + video format), Bustle, Brit + Co, Swaay Media and the print books *Knives and Ink* (Bloomsbury) and *Amazing Women Entrepreneurs* (due March 2017). I was granted a James Beard Foundation fellowship.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I sell thermometers and thermal imagers, and write reviews on popular products. Simply put, the business name Cardtek was derived from our core business, which revolves around card technologies. Cardtek rolls off the tongue and leaves a lasting impression that we’re experts in everything card and payment technologies related.

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