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Great entrepreneurs go for it. Doubts are shoved aside, and they take the plunge with passion. We all know this intuitively, but most of us could use some reinforcement. I found it the other day on San Francisco Bay. At…
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Imagine an app designed to hook you up, not with a hot date, but with tens of millions of dollars that institutions need to give away every year, an app that just might pay for your college education, and more…
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Picture the Starbucks café at Squaw Valley, California, on a gorgeous summer morning near beautiful Lake Tahoe. It’s Sunday, 9 a.m., and everyone wants their latte or frappuccino. But the two Starbucks employees in the photo above continue blithely washing…
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Entrepreneurs and startups face the challenge sooner or later, what are we going to call it? The web is full of amateur advice, not to mention plenty of lousy names for products, apps or companies. The path to a cool…
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