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Professionals buying into perfect jobs
Annette Walter was chief operating officer of a fast-growing Baltimore real estate company. Her husband, Shawn, a former construction project manager, had launched a successful career in sales. But in March, the Hunt Valley couple walked away from the...Tags: Family, Moving and Storage, Hunt Valley, Labor Markets, Sales
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Tribune forms Silicon Valley digital venture, hires Shashi Seth
Underscoring that technology increasingly will drive the success of traditional media outlets, Tribune Co. is planting a flag in Silicon Valley and has hired a former top Yahoo executive to lead the company's digital ventures. Shashi Seth, who has...
Tags: AOL LLC, Economy, Business and Finance, Media Industry, Shashi Seth, Companies and Corporations
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Vernon Hills teen wins Thiel entrepreneur award
Dropping out of college doesn't have to be a career setback. Just ask Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg — or Kevin Wang. Wang, 18, a Vernon Hills native and graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, is among this year's 22 recipients of...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Peter Thiel, Awards and Prizes
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Balancing Act: Young entrepreneurs redefining work world
The Miami HeraldOn a recent college tour with my teenage son, a professor at a Florida university gave him pointed advice: "Don't expect to get a job at a company. You're going to need to be an entrepreneur." It caught me off guard, but my son didn't react. He took it as...Tags: Media Industry, University of Miami, Arts and Culture, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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With an app, Wham City finds its mainstream breakthrough
At last month's Academy of Country Music Awards, Brad Paisley performed his single, “Beat This Summer,” alongside John Mayer. The audience held up cell phones — the modern version of the lighter at concerts — that displayed bright,...
Tags: Concerts, Marketing, New Products, Entertainment Events, Sony Corp.
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Mergers rare among startups and venture capitalists
The typical venture capital success story goes like this: Investor backs startup. Startup grows rapidly and either goes public, gets acquired or licenses its technology. Investor collects a healthy return. GrubHub and Seamless' plan to merge their...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Media Industry, Companies and Corporations, Finance, Business
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Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Tribune, Companies and Corporations, Finance, Tribune Company
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, DREAM Act, Financial Aid, Engineering, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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State, economic group launch program to help companies to grow
The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and the Maryland Department of Business of Economic Development announced Monday that they created a new program to help companies that have moved beyond the start-up phase to continue to grow. Advance Maryland...
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The Orange County Register Jan Norman column
Orange County RegisterJim Clifton has spent decades pondering why business succeeds or fails. A 40-year employee of Gallup Inc., the public opinion research and consulting company, Clifton has spent the past 25 years as its CEO. Under his leadership, Gallup has expanded from a...Tags: Orange County Register, Labor Markets, Business Enterprises, Invention and Innovation, Business
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GrubHub, Seamless to combine online food ordering businesses
Tribune staff reporterChicago-based food ordering startup GrubHub is merging with its rival Seamless, creating a company with more than $100 million in revenue and a combined network of more than 20,000 local takeout restaurants across the U.S. GrubHub and New York-based...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Dining and Drinking, Business, Corporate Officers
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UTEP team's project wins venture titles
El Paso Times, TexasThree University of Texas at El Paso students hope to turn a Nobel Prize-winning material into a multimillion-dollar business tied to a low-cost, environmentally friendly technology for recycling water. They are off to a flying start with two wins and a...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entertainment Events, Invention and Innovation, Financial Aid
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