Owning it: Power and Change
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By Meg McSherry Breslin
Genevieve Thiers, 31, can speak to this from experience. Even after her business plan for Sittercity.com was rejected by venture capitalists, Ms. Thiers built her idea into a multimillion-dollar Chicago business on her own, and eventually won venture capital support anyway. "I didn't let (the initial rejection) throw me," she recalls. "I just thought, 'I'll just go and do it myself."
