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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

Each year, an estimated 70,700 to 111,600 teens will enter adulthood, according to Drexel University Life Course Outcomes Research Program. So, the duo founded nonPareil Institute, a post-secondary training institute, in 2008. Students have the autonomy to choose from 75 courses with a defined curriculum. as of 2017.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

Success

Those things, of course, make him who he is. By any definition he’d reached undeniable success in music by 2008, and he seemed to have a reasonable blueprint to sustain it. Of course he’s seen people waste their talents. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Our mission, set forth by an online course: Write lines of code that would put the creature’s fluffy, deceptively innocent picture on a webpage and let users click on it, zipping them to Wikipedia’s “kitten” entry. “I Employer-sponsored development is even scarcer, of course, when you lack a full-time employer. Growing independence.

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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

Workplace Insight

This feature is taken from issue 7 of IN Magazine The post Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future appeared first on Workplace Insight. This subject has already been explored by designers and researchers but the current focus on wellbeing and design may mean that its real time is yet to come.

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University of Miami's Innovative Launch Pad Entrepreneurship Program

Small Business Labs

In 2008 the University of Miami started a student entrepreneurship program called Launch Pad.    Unlike most academic entrepreneurship programs, it's not a major or set of courses.    Miami also has a traditional entrepreneurship major and set of courses in their undergraduate business school. 

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Patrice Washington Is Redefining Wealth By Scaling Joy

Success

The crash of the housing market in 2008 and subsequent recession decimated her business, leaving her on welfare and food stamps and—eventually—sitting across from a generous Harvey who offered to create a job with the sole purpose of helping her get back on her feet. And it was gone overnight. What I really wanted was peace,” she says.

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Kindle: The Backward Approach to Customers

Make or Break Moments

Of course, almost a year later, the Kindle isn’t new news but there was a statement in the article that was important enough for me to circle it and save: “There are two ways to extend a business. Amazon comes in at #9 with a tagline piece of advice “what’s dangerous is not to evolve.&#

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