Show Thanks For Your Teachers, Mentors & Role Models

It's important to acknowledge those who help foster your abilities and empower you to pursue the life you want. This Thanksgiving I wanted to share my gratitude to my many teachers, mentors, role models, and friends who have influenced my life and given me their support.

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Ramit Sethi Shows You How to Negotiate, Automate & Perspirate Your Way to Financial Success

Explosively successful gen-y blogger & NYT best-selling author Ramit Sethi answers some questions about entrepreneurship, experimentation & failure, how he negotiated a book deal & promoted his book to #1 on Amazon, and tells us about his new I Will Teach You To Be Rich Personal Finance Bootcamp.

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It’s Not All About Money—Building a Business is your Chance to Make a Difference

In his book The Monk and the Riddle, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Randy Komisar asks "What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life?" Take a detour from the Deferred Life Plan and learn what builds a truly successful business: passion.

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College Grad Special: The Top 10 Best Commencement Speeches

Happy Memorial Day, dear readers. Today is an important U.S. holiday when we offer remembrance for all the women and men who have lost their lives in military service to our nation. It is also a time for family gatherings and BBQs that for many families coincides with their children’s’ next rite of passage as [...]

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5 Kickass Benefits of Entrepreneurial Learning

John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application by [...]

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10 Great Ways to Distinguish Yourself from One of Silicon Valley’s Top Entrepreneurs

Rajesh Setty is president of Foresight Plus, where he helps give his professional clients the unfair business advantage. He also blogs at Life Beyond Code, where he coaches the rest of us on how to have the unfair life advantage! Rajesh has written numerous books (he had his first one published at age 13!) and [...]

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Win Over A Recruiter in 30 Seconds Or Less

Tech/management blog Rands in Repose has a few really interesting little tips about creating that resume. The author, an engineering manager in Silicon Valley, says he spends about 30 seconds glimpsing at each resume that comes across his desk, so you had better grab his attention! One of the most important (and funniest) realities is to [...]

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Excuse Me While I Slip Into a More Comfortable Paradigm

I LOVE this article by Ron Davison! The Bay Area and the Reinvention of Self: “I don’t know if there is another place on the planet where people are so full of possibility – whether it be the possibility of reinventing themselves by a change in thinking…or body…or starting a business with which they expect to [...]

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