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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK.

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In the Lean In Era, Business And Tech Still Fail To Promote Women; 4 Ways To Fix The Problem Now 

YoungUpstarts

Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. Even lower down the ranks, the number of women tech companies employ has declined – from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent in 2016 — and is predicted to decrease further in coming years. Cast a wide net.

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10 Famous People Who Flourished After Being Laid Off

YoungUpstarts

It’s hard to believe that the man who created Mickey Mouse and co-founded one of the biggest motion picture production companies ever faced rejection, but in 1919, Walt Disney was fired from his job at the Kansas City Star because he supposedly lacked imaginative ideas. Here are 10 famous people who flourished after being laid off: 1.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. I showed up in Sophia Antipolis, France (living in Antibes if you know the area) and I was in “Network Solutions.” I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO. He took me.

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The March cS Award and the February cS Award Winners!

crowdSPRING Blog

My job is finding the right word or phrase for your product, service, business name or tag line. What I am singularly good at is finding emotion based words to describe a business, a product or a service. I created my first logo in 1995 with ClarisWorks, (aka AppleWorks) on a Macintosh Performa 575. I love words.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales.

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Land of Milk, Honey and Wine: Get Familiar with Wine Funds and Israeli Wineries

VC Cafe

The wine funds research the space, study the weather, soil conditions and critics trends and essentially bet on future production of a winery. We regard each of our wine labels as reflecting a part of an entire enterprise that strives for and ultimately achieves product perfection.