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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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When she asked investors to consider new companies, she noticed a disturbing pattern: “Founders always got a meeting if they looked a certain kind of way and went to certain schools, but if it was, for example, a Black woman who had gone to the same schools, like Stanford and MIT, she wouldn’t get a meeting.”

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Ipsos Global Trends 2020

Small Business Labs

  It's based on extensive surveys and interviews across 33 countries and updates similar efforts conducted in 2013 and 2016.     For example, 55% of Americans agreed that unequal wealth distribution is bad for society.  This   These are: Climate emergency and antagonism.

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Lifestyle Entrepreneur Lewis Howes on the Power of Vulnerability and Authenticity

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Being a curious facilitator of life-changing information is exactly what Howes was aiming for when he launched the podcast in 2013, though the path to get there wasn’t exactly that of a conventional, starry-eyed entrepreneur. The answer was immediately apparent: “I just want to interview great minds,” Howes recalls. That was 2013.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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In 2013, while building his sales career, a friend of Kelly’s introduced him to podcasting. Kelly started his own podcast, The Sales Evangelist , and interviewed fellow sellers about what worked and what didn’t, essentially “evangelizing” about the topic. Kelly offers the example of someone who comes in to buy a computer.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

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She uses the example of playing golf: “As strange as it seems, the brain has to be so quiet to do a perfect golf swing, to get everything connected the right way. For example, starting a nonprofit may not be the best choice for someone with no business experience. This article was published in June 2013 and has been updated.

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Forbes and its Freelance Workforce

Small Business Labs

" Based on our interviews and discussions with freelancers who are contributing to Forbes for free, this description is accurate.  Forbes says the folks providing free content do so because they "find rewards in an association with FORBES that often leads to paid opportunities elsewhere."

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Career Success A to Z: N is for Non-Negotiable

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Some people are willing to sacrifice a little pay in exchange for a shorter commute, for example. I’m not willing to travel every other week the way I did for nearly a year in 2013. So, you have to know what you want but you also have to prioritize, because the reality is this: You probably will have to compromise at some point.