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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I loved learning and practicing persuasion, negotiation techniques and networking. I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish. I had received my first salary, moved into a colonial house in Panama City Casco Viejo district next to the Pacific Ocean. I was (still am!)

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. Or, I’d recommend consumer-facing founders start networking with the Angel groups in Silicon Valley immediately. There was also that gutsy couple of years I decided to sail to Panama.)