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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. There was also that gutsy couple of years I decided to sail to Panama.) Every quarter we set goals that broke down into weekly KPIs to evaluate to make sure we were moving forward. Step on the scale.

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

ConversionXL

After the year was over, I landed a job as a sales person for a property portal in Dubai. I quickly proved myself and was promoted to head a small sales and marketing team (6 people) in the company. ” These were the words uttered by my then-boss when he walked into our sales team room. I was 25 years old. How to choose?

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