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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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Since 2012, when Chance released his first mixtape after graduating from Jones College Prep in 2011, his promise has attracted attention from established artists eager to collaborate. Only in his 20s, Chance had already accomplished major goals he’d set for himself, including hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live and winning Grammys.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. In 2012 I passed along between 35 and 40% of the work that came my way.

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7 Questions to Answer Before Starting a New Business

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If you have a product or service that needs lots of customers in order for you to reach your financial goals, then you’ll need a high-volume marketing plan. As an example, if you’re starting a jewelry business or a retail store, you’ll need the continued awareness and business of lots of people in order to succeed.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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My goal with being able to read facial expressions was never anything I had intended to use professionally,” Särnblad says. “I with her family in 2012, her ability to code microexpressions allowed her to jump-start her career in strategic advising. Take mergers and acquisitions , for example. When she moved back to the U.S.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012. Using the examples of recent advances like Alexa and ChatGPT , Breazeal describes these technologies as social interfaces, or personified AI systems, that don’t present themselves as a tool.

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Food Truck Nation

Small Business Labs

cities and the goal is to show what it's like to start an operate a food truck. We've long covered the food truck industry and in 2012 released what is still our favorite study,  Food Trucks Motor into the Mainstream, in partnership with Intuit. Craft brewing, which we covered a few weeks ago , is another example

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The Secret Tool Every Workplace Needs to Thrive in 2024

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And according to McKinsey, only 40% of training is aligned with business goals. Examples include better regulations of managers’ emotions and attention, better decision-making, and problem-solving. According to a Forrester report, about 40% of employees and managers are unsatisfied with on-the-job training.

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