"We knew when we started at a failing school, we were trying to change lives, " said Ms Ward.

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We started this charter school for at-risk kids.

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We started watching games together late in high school and through college and started talking about it.

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We started with surveys of each school's class of 1994, asking students to disclose (anonymously) their compensation just before matriculating, after graduation and four and a half years later.

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Vinny Dotoli: When we started out, we had an inspiring school on paper but a long journey to make it a reality.

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When my co-founders and I started Vault, we were right out of school, and we naturally created a company to assist recent college grads.

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We started as a research project out of the University of San Francisco School of Business.

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We started to develop a larger vision together within the walls of Bauder Elementary School.

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