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How This Entrepreneur Went From Poverty To CEO Of A Dead Sexy Startup

InfoChachkie

Don began by explaining that his impoverished childhood drove him to a life as an entrepreneur. ". I had never thought about being an entrepreneur. Although he was excelling as a web designer, Don began to get the itch to start his own business. I grew up ridiculously poor. We pushed it in a corner to keep it up.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. I’m investing heavily in Internet video.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Cloud services.