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How To Shake Up Your Career — And Start Your Own Company

By Katie Couric | Medium | November 4, 2019

Christine Marcus didn’t take a straight shot to entrepreneurship. She grew up in a Coptic Orthodox Egyptian community in Texas, married young and followed a conservative career path that took her to a …

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A Wildfire Fighter Needed a Job That Didn’t Require Jumping Out of Helicopters. He Came Up With This Multimillion-Dollar Business

By Dan Whateley | Inc. | October 29, 2019

Mark Masters learned how to perform in high-pressure scenarios as an 18-year-old fighting wildfires in Idaho. Now he runs Chloeta [shuh-lay-tuh], an emergency management staffing company he founded in 2009 to help businesses …

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5 Key Lessons on Building a Business That Super-Successful Female Founders Wished They’d Known When They Started

By Christine Lagorio-Chafkin | Inc. | November 6, 2019

Nine out of 10 startups fail. “I’m surprised it’s not more!” said Sallie Krawcheck, the co-founder and chief executive of Ellevest, a financial-advice platform that caters to women, at the 2019 Fast Company …

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