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Creating Opportunity from Regret

Mike Michalowicz

We all have something (or somethings) we regret. What if we could make that regret – a success? There may never be a better time for you to reconcile a regret and find ways to apply those lessons to new opportunities. These days, I am taking my regrets, and OWNING those pesky little beasts. Hear me out.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

For certain, passionately chasing a big financial opportunity in an area you have little street experience is a recipe for disappointment. Unless you have a proven track record from a prior career, or experience leading teams in some other context, you can expect stumbles and a long learning curve to lead a team.

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Interview with Chris Garland of Botswana

The Startup Magazine

The culture, the people, the sense of opportunity: It’s a truly amazing place and, until recently, quite a well-kept secret outside the region. This work has directly improved the lives of hundreds of local workers and indirectly benefited many thousands more through improved infrastructure and economic opportunities.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

After concluding Round 15, we took on the sizeable challenge of converting the full spectrum of ~460 test implementations from our home-brew quasi-sandboxed ( only mostly sandboxed ) configuration to a stupefying array of Docker containers. The only regret is not having done this earlier ( if only someone had told us about Docker !).

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[INTERVIEW] David Mimran, Director Of The Mimran Group

YoungUpstarts

We were fortunate enough to catch up with him and ask what he’s up to now, what his near-term plans include, and what he’d tell mere mortals eager to learn from the best. Tell us about a time you failed and what you learned from the experience. I continue to regret ceding control of an activist fund that I co-founded.

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10 Keys To The Teamwork Required To Run Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who embrace the “lone wolf” approach usually live to regret it. Every entrepreneur should heed the following lessons on collaboration derived from the authors work on the culture, process and technology of collaboration in hundreds of companies: Consensus is the enemy of collaboration. All team members must be committed.

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Seven Practical Ways To Promote A Mentally Healthy Workplace Culture

YoungUpstarts

by Graeme Cowan, author of “ Back from the Brink: True Stories and Practical Help for Overcoming Depression and Bipolar Disorder “ Employers are far from powerless when it comes to helping employees develop and maintain mental health. Employees achieve the greatest fulfillment from work when they’re using their strengths.

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