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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

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Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1. Wharton graduates averaged more than $114,000 of graduate school loans).

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Richard leveraged the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

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"When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites.

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Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

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Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors. Startup sales require high velocity. Startups must follow a similar philosophy. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach. Startups should deploy a similar tag team approach.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

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Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. No matter how rapidly a startup is growing, it can never afford to sacrifice employee quality as a means of achieving its hiring goals.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Monday, August 27th, 2012. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. SIGN UP for CrunchDaily. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

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But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. So last fall we started a spring clean , and since then we’ve closed or combined more than 30 products”. iGoogle users have been given up to 16 months to download and export their data.

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