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From sales to CEO: A female entrepreneur’s journey in the beverage alcohol industry

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Restaurant life was trial by fire and required stellar teamwork abilities, a strong passion for food and wine , and a propensity for understanding people—all of which I quickly developed and cultivated. These experiences taught me that I possessed excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated talent in sales and marketing.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Back in late 2008, I noticed that one of my Flickr contacts seemed to be short a few photos--like, a few thousand of them. Always working on something entrepreneurial, he had a team of developers at the ready to execute on new projects. We're looking for a solid VP of engineering and some additional developers.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close.

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Resilience in Entrepreneurship is the X Factor for Success

American Entrepreneurship

Why Resilience and Perseverance Are the Cornerstones of Startup Success Successful entrepreneurs overcome failure because they have developed entrepreneurial resilience—the mental toughness to weather uncertainty, recover from setbacks, and are able to keep building even when things go wrong. What matters most is how you respond.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That’s a fact.