Before del Toro started school, his father won the Mexican national lottery.

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It is, for example, customary for the founders of big technology firms to have dropped out of college, or at least graduate school, before getting started.

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Mr McPherson-Davies, a former chairman of the Ramsden Crays Parish Council, believed it would take some time before children from the settled community started to return to the school.

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So much so that Waldorf started a software consulting company before he even began high school.

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In an effort to monetize the concept, Mason dropped-out of graduate school and started working on Groupon as a side project before dedicating his full time to the site in the fall of 2008.

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Before he started his journey, he was planning to apply to business school.

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Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, a high-school assistant before he became a college assistant, said aspiring college coaches once started in high schools and moved up not long afterward.

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Officials say 80 percent of NYC smokers started before age 21, and an estimated 20, 000 New York City public high school students now smoke.

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Shari Bayer, owner of culinary and hospitality PR company Bayer Public Relations (BPR), started out in restaurants, went to culinary school, then landed at a PR firm before realizing she really wanted to work for herself.

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