Category: Interviews
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By Jon Eckhardt on Wed Dec 09 2015
In her years as an entrepreneur, Toni Sikes has focused on helping artists find people who will pay for their work. Her company, CODAworx, serves as an online community for painters, sculptors, Read more |
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By Kimberly Eddleston on Mon Oct 19 2015
Despite his economics degree and ownership of several restaurants, Themistocles “Lakis” Vlahoulis, owner of Il Panino Café and Grill in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, faced some struggles when he Read more |
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By Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall on Mon Sep 14 2015
In 2002, both Linda Hall and her new company -- which would later become MinuteClinic, a fixture in 1000 CVS stores -- had a lot to lose. Hall was the sole breadwinner in her household and had no Read more |
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By Kimberly Eddleston on Mon Aug 17 2015
Boston restauranteur Frank DePasquale has built his empire with this recipe: Learn as much as you can from other entrepreneurs and those who work for you. Listen to your customers. Hug your Read more |
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By Jon Eckhardt on Wed Jun 17 2015
Eric Martell co-founded EatStreet as a 19-year-old to create a "digital food court" and online ordering for mom-and-pop restaurants serving hungry college students. His startup has now grown to 110 Read more |
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By Jon Eckhardt on Fri Jun 12 2015
Alec Slocum started his smartphone-based apartment-hunting service, ABODO, after being frustrated in his own search for shelter. He sat down recently with Jon Eckhardt to talk about how he launched Read more |
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By Jon Eckhardt on Wed Jun 10 2015
Joe Kremer's company, Isomark, provides life-saving technology that can detect potentially deadly illnesses early through a simple breath test. In this interview Kremer talks about how Isomark was Read more |
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By David Deeds on Fri Mar 06 2015
In a candid interview with EIX's David Deeds, Ann Winblad, co-founder and managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, shares her war stories -- including her earliest entrepreneurial Read more |
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By James C Wetherbe on Mon May 19 2014
Garrey Carruthers shares his remarkable journey of going from family farm boy to professor, to governor, to entrepreneur and to dean of business school and then president of New Mexico State Read more |
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By James C Wetherbe on Tue Apr 29 2014
Dick Schulze, the founder of Best Buy and EIX, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and innovator, including how he tripled his income from his boyhood paper route; quit a retail job when his Read more |