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From The Flea Market To The Stock Market

YoungUpstarts

My father was laid off work and decided to join me on the Philadelphia and New Jersey flea market circuit. Green says that it’s important not to devalue simple jobs because no experience is bad experience. Green says the key to one day finding success is to learn how to pivot and adjust when something isn’t working.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. So, Umbrex evolved out of a community that I started to meet a need that I felt myself.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My partner Denise lives outside of Philadelphia, and wanted more flexibility to be there for her children and grandchildren. While working for the past few years to promote the green burial idea and trying to get land set aside in my hometown for a park/green cemetery , I decided to put my money where my mouth was.

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Upfront and the Power of Startup Community in LA

Feld Thoughts

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It’s delightful to sit in my green zebra chair in Amy’s upstairs office, with a cup of tea, the Diana Krall channel playing on Pandora, and just catch up on stuff.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

He started out in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, where I was born. we should staple a green card on the certificate of every science graduate who comes to America. He grew up in Medellin in the days where the grew a different kind of sugar. He left in his early twenties to come to America for his med-school residency.

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Volunteering in Costa Rica

David Cohen

The other is from Philadelphia, with a mom, dad, and 3 kids. Great lunch, it was friend chicken tenders, rice and black beans, a green salsa, plantains, and fruit juice. Some more green salsa, and this time some kind of pink fruit juice. The other families seem nice/sane/easy going. Their youngest is about 9 years old, I think.

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Transcript of How Meditation Can Change Your Life (and the World)

Duct Tape Marketing

And it gives it the green light to say, “Yes, this will work, let’s put it into the system.” Tom Cronin: I think what we should do at this, and at that point of that level of conversation is we should look at the science of the current research that’s done on the pharmaceuticals.