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Acting boldly, embracing failure Encouragement the highlight of Darden entrepreneurship conference

Claire Mitchell and Sara Yeatman Currier took a roundabout path to starting a small business. Both have full-time careers in education — Mitchell as a research associate at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and Yeatman Currier as a teacher at Brownsville Elementary School — and young families. The two founded […]

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At Tom Tom festival, McAuliffe signs law protecting youth entrepreneurs

Gov. Terry McAuliffe used the Paramount Theater stage Thursday to sign into a law a bill designed to protect the intellectual property rights of student entrepreneurs. McAuliffe signed the bill as the marquee moment of the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Youth Summit, an all-day event for area high-schoolers. House Bill 1230 requires the boards of […]