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WordPress’ Parent Company, Automattic, Raises $29.5mil, Set to Continue Rocking the Blog World!

Friday, August 1, 2008

Welcome! Thrilling Heroics is a site for young professionals and college students who want to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. If you like what you read here, subscribe for free and get tips on personal development, entrepreneurship, branding & lifestyle design delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader. Sometime in 2003, a 19-year-old Houston [...]

If You Value The Privacy Guaranteed to You by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, Please Take Action NOW!

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Author Tim Ferriss has released an important message that he says is sure to be controversial and somewhat divisive, but it may also be the most important 20 minute video clip any U.S. citizen will watch in our lifetime. I will copy much of Ferriss’ important message below. Normally I wouldn’t duplicate someone else’s content to [...]

The Benefits of Using WordPress to Publish Your Blog

Monday, June 23, 2008

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WordPress is a free, open source blog publishing platform. There are freely hosted accounts available at WordPress.com, or self-hosted software available at WordPress.org (we deal solely with the latter). The platform was developed by Matt Mullenweg and a large online community of software developers, which means there is a lot of support available out there, [...]

Women, Invest in Yourselves First with the Empowering Wealthy Girl Summit 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Ladies, do you hope to find a millionaire husband? Do you want to marry rich? That’s what my friend Alicia Dunams set out to do in her mid-20’s, but she instead found herself on a journey of personal growth and self-actualization. Alicia is the author of Amazon best-selling book Goal Digger: Lessons Learned from the Rich [...]

Interview: Anya Kamenetz, Author of Generation Debt

Friday, July 13, 2007

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The Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series continues at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com with Anya Kamenetz, a young author and columnist for the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Slate, and Village Voice. Her first book is Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich [...]

Bloggers, the Freedom of Information, and the Journalism Question

Friday, June 15, 2007

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There’s a bill in the House and the Senate this year that might give some bloggers the same protections that traditional news reporters have. The Free Flow of Information Act would beef up federal shield laws that protect journalists from revealing their sources except in the most immediate cases where a crime has been committed, when [...]

Zero Is the New Black: Let the Seller Beware

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

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Today’s article is a guest post from Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Senior Editor for Green Options, your home on the web for “Greening the Good Life.” He focuses here on the story of No-Impact Man, who attracted the attention of the New York Times about two weeks ago. For the next year, No-Impact Man and his family [...]

E-Week at Stanford

Thursday, March 8, 2007

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Last week was EntrepreneurshipWeek USA across the nation and beyond, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the New York Times, and Inc Magazine. Over 350 participating universities host their own events to bring together the best entrepreneurial thinkers and leaders–events like Brown University’s 60-second Elevator Pitch competition, Purdue’s Idea-to-Product (I2P) competition, and the Idea [...]