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Boss Hatch - Entrepreneurs in the Making

April 18th, 2008

“Startup Showdown 2008″

Fortune and Rice University hosted a contest to find the best student business plans.  Each student was given a minute to pitch a business plan.  The winner of the contest wins over $300,000!  Damn!
First place team: qcue
What it does: Helps promoters price live events and concerts and resell tickets
Founders: Andrew Mills, Barry Kahn, and Jitendra […]

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January 11th, 2008

Fortune’s “Hiring Your First Employee”

CNN recently posted Fortune’s article titled “Hiring your first employee” as a response to this submitted question:
How does an entrepreneur go about hiring his or her first employee? What should be the first employee’s role - administrative, sales or technology? Must an owner offer a piece of the company to the employee?
I pulled out […]

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