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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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In America being in this type of job means that you get 2 (maybe 3) weeks of vacation per year. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And so it was that I pushed to get jobs in LA, Miami, Rome, Barcelona, the South of France, London and Tokyo.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves).

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. Third most powerful economic city in the world after NYC & Tokyo.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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It’s Amazon, Virgin America, Netflix, Tesla, DropBox, iPhone, Uber, Lyft or any one of the other great brands that exist because they do things significantly better than what came before. ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. He grew up in Colombia, South America. Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. I grew up in Northern California. He still speaks Spanish more than he speaks English. His father came from Romania.