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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

I had the opportunity to live in a number of foreign countries, Portugal when I was little, then Canada when I was 10 until college, and then I did my junior year in Spain and I worked in Venezuela, and I was able to study four languages, so Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Latin loved languages. And then we forced ourselves to do it.

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Twitter Link Roundup #51 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Old and New School Angel Investing Philosophies Clash in Chicago – [link]. Interview with a crowdSPRING designer – 12 Questions: Meet Rommel Rojas (Venezuela) – [link]. A Startup is its People (nothing more) - [link]. Fight When it’s Time to Fight. Be Gracious When It’s Time to Give In – [link].

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. Founded seven years ago, In Blue Handmade began when then I moved out of Chicago, left my job in the music business, dropped $90 on a Singer sewing machine and moved into a farmhouse in southern Illinois. Mike & Aaron May, Pacific Issue !