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Mompreneur Stories: Flexibility
By Guest Author Erika Valdez There are many extraordinary examples of women entrepreneurs out there—women who, due to various circumstances, have chosen to take the path of entrepreneurship and are now owners of successful businesses. Over the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to interview many women, most of them moms, who have
Erika Valdez
Erika Valdez is a recent graduate of the MBA program (May 2009) at the H-E-B School of Business & Administration at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She is a research assistant and intern who focuses on women entrepreneurs for Sramana Mitra on Strategy and a research assistant for the
The Art of Making (and Learning From) Mistakes
By Guest Author Bibby Gignilliat I make a lot of mistakes! It’s inevitable: new entrepreneurs starting a business are bound to make a mistake or two along the way. If you let them, mistakes can hamper your goals and make you less confident in the task you set out to do.
Life Before Apps Stores
By Guest Author Saad Fazil While the iPhone and Android platforms and their ilk have certainly opened up the playing field to a long tail of developers, they are by no means cash machines. In fact, if you had planned on quitting your job to get rich developing apps for these platforms, you might want
Bibby Gignilliat
Bibby transformed a career in marketing at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. into an enormously satisfying career in professional cooking. She launched her formal training at Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco. She has taught cooking classes at HomeChef® and at Tante Marie’s and currently teaches at Sur La Table, Ramekins and Draeger’s. In 1999, Bibby founded
Saad Fazil
Saad Fazil does freelance writing for VentureBeat and is the founder of Whizner Consulting, a technology strategy consulting firm. Prior to consulting, he held business analyst, product management, and sales consultant positions at Kayak.com, Oracle, and Alcatel. He received his MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He blogs at IT Valley and tweets at @sfrocks. For fun,
Is It Time For Your CEO To Go? (Part 1)
By guest author Tony Scott of ChampionScott Partners I originally wrote a version of this piece a few years ago when success for most start-ups was defined as either an IPO, or an acquisition just before an IPO. While most of the core observations are still absolutely valid, I think a few things have changed
