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17 Successful People Share The Best Career Mistakes They've Ever Made
Many of the most successful people didn't have a straightforward or easy path to the top. They made big mistakes, missed big opportunities, and suffered harsh setbacks.What distinguishes them is the...
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Meet The CEO Who Lived In A Taco Bell Parking Lot And Now Runs A Cool New...
AnyPerk CEO Taro Fukuyama made a major decision in August 2011.He and his co-founders decided to leave Japan to seek investment for their dating startup, Mieple. Their first stop: Silicon Valley."I...
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What 14 Now-Popular Websites Used To Look Like
What did LinkedIn look like the first time you visited the site in 2003? How'd The New York Times' homepage look back in 1996?We found the earliest versions of some of the most visited websites today,...
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The Most Influential People Only Have 6 People In Their Inner Circles
How many "best friends" do you have? Social scientists say most people count just four friends with whom they can discuss very important matters, but the maximum possible number of such friends is...
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It's Time For Apple To Take A Cue From How Other Companies Innovate
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a very tough job. Not only does he have to run the most valuable tech company on the planet, but he has to follow one of the greatest chief executives in history. Is he up to...
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The Mysterious Difference Between Those Who Make It Rich And Those Who Don't
Rob told me JB was dead. JB was my best friend growing up. We sat next to each other on the bus. After school we’d play ping pong or pinball or monopoly or ride bikes.Every single day we did this for...
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Why Consumer-Facing E-Commerce Is BROKEN
I finally found panties on True&Co., an ecommerce lingerie company.It took them nearly one year to start selling panties. They allegedly sold them when I mentioned them in an article titled VCs...
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Success Depends On Finding The Best Version Of Yourself
Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be.Not on the outside — on the inside. It's not about a brand, a reputation, a persona....
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How To Stop Lying
I lied to him to get a job. The hedge fund manager asked me how much money I had in the bank.I had ZERO but I said, “a million dollars”. This was in 2002.In the prior two years I had lost all the money...
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Secretly, Some Wall Streeters Think The Industry Is Greedier Than Ever
“I meet a lot of these people on Wall Street on a regular basis right now...I am going to put it very bluntly: I regard the moral environment as pathological. And I am talking about the human...
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3D Printing Is Creating A New Breed Of Chinese Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy making things.Yet the factory, owned by...
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China Slams Its Own CEOs Over Pay
Quartz's Adam Pasick points us to a report from the FT's Simon Rabinovitch on China condemning salaries among its top corporate execs.The thing is, they're not even that high, at least compared with...
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Watch Nate Silver Give A Talk At The London School Of Economics Tonight
New York Times columnist, statistician and poker star Nate Silver is giving a talk on his book, 'The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction' at the London School of Economics...
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Why Wealth Doesn't Equal Happiness
Happiness is supposed to be what we value above all else. Even in ancient times, Aristotle wrote that “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” I...
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I'm An Actuary And I Have The Best Job In America
Actuaries have the best job in America, according to a recent study by CareerCast.com, which looked at work environment (includes physical and emotional demands), income, stress, and hiring...
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BANKERS SOUND OFF: Here's What I Wish I Knew When I First Started Working On...
It's the time of year when college seniors around the country say goodbye to their carefree childhood and get ready to join the real world.And if that real world is going to be Wall Street, they're...
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Warren Buffett's Advice To A Columbia University Investing Class
Investors are constantly looking for nuggets of wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, so this tidbit on Omaha.com caught our eye.It's just one quote from Buffett. He was at a 165 person...
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How To Brace Yourself For An Unpleasant Work Conversation
Don't get psyched out by what you think might happen.That’s one of many useful pieces of advice that Mary C. Schaefer, an author, trainer and consultant specializing in employee-manager communication,...
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How To Get From A Great Idea To Really Making Money
A sobering truth about creativity and innovation is that even a fabulous idea isn’t good enough. It also has to get attention. It has to win the acceptance of other people, including bosses and...
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Making A List Of Your Core Values Will Keep You From Getting Sidetracked
Life is full of vulnerable moments —occasions when we feel off-balance, unsure of ourselves and our abilities—and in these moments we are likely to perform less well than we might. Social psychologists...
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