So my co-founders and I aimed to build a company that was artist and academic friendly -that would educate, empower and support people looking to get funding and build awareness for their projects.
Because I had business training, I thought that my job was to go out and build a sales and marketing plan and to develop relationships with other businesses.
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When I started BUILD, it was estimated that less than 30% of the kids who started ninth grade in high school who came from East Palo Alto middle school district, graduated high school.
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And I think it was important to him that he establish and build around an executive team that intended to be here for many, many years.
Being able to launch products was important to the extent that I wanted to learn how to build great products, and quick, iterative feedback is a necessary foundation for learning.
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At the Windows launch in New York, at the Windows Phone event in San Francisco, and again at the Build event on Redmond campus, I was struck that while externally many people look at these events as the finish line, they really represent the starting line of a new era.
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They were the things that I wanted to build because I wanted to use them, and because there was a need for a better product in each of those spaces.
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"The panel and I all agreed that Simon was the right person to lead the fight against crime and build the team in Dyfed Powys for the future, " he said.
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"I was looking for a place to build and I came across a very old house that I remember from childhood, " she said.
Gosh, I can remember a small car, codenamed Cardinal, that Ford planned to build in this country that was killed just 60 days before the scheduled Job 1.
The analogy I raised to pension intermediaries secretly profiting from money managers was that of a contractor hired by a city to build a road who solicits kick-backs from sub-contractors.
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That was certainly the case this morning, when he appeared as relaxed as I have ever seen him in the build-up to a fight.
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