Entrepreneurs are people who would just be dreadful employees

668_ Entrepreneurs are people who would just be dreadful employees 
When Ellen Siminoff was asked, "What is it about you that makes the entrepreneur part tick?" Ellen, who was a founding executive at Yahoo said, "When I started Yahoo, we were a small group of folks and thought we were changing the world! For me, it's about the idea and the people and the excitement of creating it." Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Ellen, CEO and president - their mission,. "Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing)." About 18 years ago, Ellen and her husband started a different company, they were distributing television programming in Eastern Europe and she fell in love with the media industry. In 1994, at the Los Angeles Times, Ellen started running their online classifieds (this was really early), and she realized technology could be used to deliver media in a really interesting way. Today she's a great fan of the Kindle. Lucy asked what's next for Shmoop? Ellen's reply, "Well, I think we've done a really great job on Lit, history and poetry. We're going to do more in Civics, and get some of the maths and sciences up there because I think it's really important to be able to read, write and do arithmetic." There's more...
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