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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

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Supporting his family—and doing so legally—motivated him. Doing so required him to humble himself and ask for help, since his professional networks and bankability had crumbled after incarceration. Nowack says returned citizens also often have transferable skills. The only way to go forward was to kind of do my own thing.

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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

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Supporting his family—and doing so legally—motivated him. Doing so required him to humble himself and ask for help, since his professional networks and bankability had crumbled after incarceration. Nowack says returned citizens also often have transferable skills. The only way to go forward was to kind of do my own thing.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. “People like to quote Don Corleone from The Godfather , when he says, ‘It’s business, not personal,’” Gage says.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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asks Suleika Jaouad, who had to face her own mortality in 2011. While bias tends to get all the attention, noise can be just as destructive, say authors Kahneman (a Nobel Laureate for his work in behavioral economics and author of Thinking Fast and Slow ), strategy professor Olivier Sibony and legal scholar Cass Sunstein.

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How to Write Without Colour

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How do you network and expand your business when you can’t make eye contact? I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. Even if you don’t know what green is, you can use your writer’s skills to bring green to life. You think you’re writing project is hard? Welcome to my world.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills.         Tiffany Odutoye Talk Social Networking Llc. A Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog. It is FREE to use! It's my biggest space and time saver!