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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Our philosophy is simple.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

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Thank you, global meltdown! As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Reply Steve , on June 15, 2009 at 9:29 am Said: Ouch! I think I just felt something pierce my reality distortion field! I lost a relationship to a startup too.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Pingback: Using Typography to Your Advantage | Pros Global TV. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character.