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

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I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. This was in 2007. Know your talents, develop a skill people value. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. What should I do with my life?

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants.