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

ConversionXL

I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. 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. Losing the job.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!