Tag: Entrepreneurship
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I wish I had never gone to college
When I went to college, I had one objective only. To get a student visa to get into Canada. I was born in Colombia and I wanted to go to a country with better economic opportunities, so I chose Canada. After evaluating all my options, I decided that the student visa route was the best…
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Money has never been a motivating factor for me, Danica Patrick
If I do a good job at something, the money will show up. If people believe in it, if they like it, the money will be there. Money has never been a motivating factor for me. It’s merely a barometer. I want to make money because it means that people like what I am doing,…
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Elon Musk on what kind of business to start
What business young people should focus on? Elon Musk: “I think it’s important to focus on something that you are personally passionate about, that you personally care about. It’s very hard to be motivated for a product that you don’t really feel strongly about. And it doesn’t have to be high-tech, it could be in…
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Balancing work and life with Ali Wong and Scott Galloway
The first clip was comedian Ali Wong on a Netflix comedy series called Netflix is a joke. I think this clip is funny only because there is a lot of truth in it. The second clip is Scott Galloway, who is a professor of marketing, public speaker, author, podcast host, entrepreneur, and a multimillionaire. As Scott Galloway…
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Creating a business from $0 to 8.75 Million in 2 years
in Self MadeThis is the story or Ramon van Meer, and how he went from having a difficult childhood, dropping out of high school, becoming a single father, and creating an internet business that went from $0 to 8.75 million in about 2 years. Ramon always had an entrepreneurial spirit but he faced many failures before stumbling…
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Margaret Thatcher on income inequality and Why the rich deserve to be richer
in OpinionMargaret Thatcher was a British Prime Minister and she was called the Iron Lady by friends and enemies. When people argue against income inequality, they would rather have the poor be poorer, provided that the rich where less rich. It doesn’t bother me that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are billionaires. I think that policies…