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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. The rent was due.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Turns out my network (of politicos and do-gooders) is not one of accredited tech investors (meaning they meet income and net wealth thresholds and choose to make investments at all, and specifically in startups). I’m a wild-eyed, competitive founder with totally unique-to-tech expertise in this area. Of course I do.