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After winning an Oscar for Best Short Film and an MTV VideoAward, Laura Groppe decided a career transition was in order. So inMay 1994, she left the Hollywood limelight, took her $75,000 lifesavings, and started an Austin, Texas-based media company, GirlGames Inc.
"It made perfect sense to stay in the entertainmentindustry and yet move in the direction I saw entertainment goingin, which is interactive," says Groppe, 33. "I saw therewas nothing for women and girls and decided this was the perfectniche."
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