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Helping You Book Vacation Rentals: Flipkey CEO T. J. Mahoney (Part 1)
T.J. Mahoney is the founder and CEO of Flipkey, a leading vacation rental service with verified vacation guest reviews. Prior...

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How A Warren Buffet Protégé Built Overstock.com: CEO Patrick Byrne (Part 1)
Dr. Patrick M. Byrne is chairman and CEO of Overstock.com, Inc., a Utah-based Internet retailer that has been publicly traded...

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 7)
SM: Would you consider taking outside financing? RV: We will consider anything. Right now the business is running in a healthy...

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Appolicious Now Delivers Personalized App Recommendations To The iPhone
Appolicious, a comprehensive iPhone app directory with a social twist, is on a roll. The startup just raised $1.5 million in...

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 6)
SM: You have scaled to a $13 million business over the past seven years. What has been challenging in that process?RV: The...

3 days ago

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 5
SM: In terms of revenue, what is the size of your company?RV: Our SAT business is at $11 million, and we are just over $13...

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 4)
SM: What does a deal size look like for your company? Let’s use Los Angeles Unified as the example.RV: The LAUSD contract...

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 3)
SM: Are you primarily a brick-and-mortar tutoring service, or are you an online education service?RV: The SAT prep courses are...

6 days ago

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 2)
SM: What kinds of learning challenges do you help your students overcome?RV: A lot of students have a hard time reading long...

7 days ago

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Are You a Serial Entrepreneur or Mission-Driven? American Express Open - interesting read http://ow.ly/MZ2m

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Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 1)
Revolution Prep was founded 2002 by Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg, who met at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management....

8 days ago

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Q4 serial entrepreneur may be behind different businesses, hires brand champion w/shared values as face #brandchat

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Is "serial entrepreneur" a good thing?

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The caring hand of serial entrepreneur is rewarded – Belfast Telegraph http://bit.ly/8EdDD1

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 7)
SM: You brought in $3 million in the first year and a half of the company. By 2003 you had a product ready. Did you then go out...

9 days ago

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 6)
SM: Who is your competition? Why can we assume that NextGen, Allscripts, and others are sitting around without a messaging...

10 days ago

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 4)
SM: Have you grown primarily through direct sales, or have you had other strategic methods?LM: There was also a viral aspect...

12 days ago

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 3)
SM: To me, it sounds as though you wanted to break communication silos in the medical arena with email. Email is a proven...

13 days ago

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Entrepreneur seiries interviewing Sharon Crost, a "serial entrepreneur".

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 2)
SM: So 15 years later you left Intel. What is the story behind that?LM: Intel’s largest OEM at the time, Packard Bell, was...

14 days ago

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Improving Healthcare Communication: Kryptiq CEO Luis Machuca (Part 1)
Luis Machuca is the president and CEO of Kryptiq Corporation, a healthcare connectivity company that facilitates an open...

15 days ago

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StephenChua posted a blog entry

Create Your Own 4-Hour Work Week
Serial Entrepreneur & UltravagabondTimothy Ferriss, author of the 4 Hour Work Week, is a self-described “serial...

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 7)
SM: If I have understood correctly, the primary presentation of your business occurs on two ends, with gifted students doing...

23 days ago

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 6)
SM: At this point, do you have full coverage of the entire basic high school curriculum?CV: We do. We cover the requirements...

24 days ago

Sramana Mitra on Strategy | Topics: Uncategorized, Apex Learning, Cheryl Vedoe, entrepreneur

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 5)
SM: In your research, what were some of the key deltas you found between your at-risk students and your gifted students, and...

25 days ago

Sramana Mitra on Strategy | Topics: Uncategorized, Apex Learning, Cheryl Vedoe, entrepreneur

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 4)
SM: Apex is venture funded, correct?CV: It is. The company has a long history of financing. It was initially started by Paul...

26 days ago

Sramana Mitra on Strategy | Topics: Uncategorized, Apex Learning, Cheryl Vedoe, entrepreneur

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 3)
SM: What was the status of Apex when you joined seven years ago?CV: Apex was founded in 1997. I joined in the fall of 2002....

27 days ago

Sramana Mitra on Strategy | Topics: Uncategorized, Apex Learning, Cheryl Vedoe, entrepreneur

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 2)
SM: Have you remained in the education space since your introduction to it at Apple?CV: I have, with one exception. SM: Where...

28 days ago

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A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 7)
SM: Conceptually, what is going on behind the scene with these skill assessments?RP: We look at the state standards for every...

30 days ago

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A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 6)
SM: You are a public company. How has the public market received this business?RP: Overall it has been OK. Originally it was...

31 days ago

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A Scalable K-12 Education Solution: K12 CEO Ron Packard (Part 1)
SM: It sounds as though you are getting the home schooling market.RP: We do, but not as many as you would think. A lot of...

32 days ago

Sramana Mitra on Strategy | Topics: Uncategorized, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Case..., K12