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Meet Martha Harper, The Social Entrepreneur Who Perfected The Franchise Business Model

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Yet many people do not realize that one of the pioneers who helped perfect the franchise business model was a woman. At that time, only 17% of the women in American had salaried jobs outside of the home and the number of female entrepreneurs was de minimis. In doing so, Martha created the template for the modern franchise.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

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We caught up with Grant to learn more about The Foos and his quest to use the principles of software programming to help kids learn. The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. Being a day, I wanted to help his daughter. What's next for you now?

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

But assuming that you do have a good starting point for sales, you’ll need to hire somebody to expand your pipeline of leads, help build customer relations and to allow you also to have some time for the hundred other things you’re responsible for like fund raising, recruiting, products, customer support, etc.

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. The other is stigma--going up to someone and saying, I have an addiction problem, or my son has an addiction problem, and can you help them.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Every person on my team was A-class. We didn’t hire resumes and experience, we hired smart, good people who wanted to be entrepreneurs. I helped the company’s Board to clear the company from the mess and cooperated with the SEC. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit