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Believing. If you do not believe, then you will never achieve. It is quite simple, actually. Even if your goal is a long shot, you have to believe at least enough to fuel your efforts. From there it becomes all about hard work and hustle. —Lauren Imparato, founder and CEO of I.AM.YOU. I think…
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Breaking up with a business partner is never easy. When your company and livelihood are at stake, how do you keep the process fair, with minimal drama, and preserve the friendship?
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To understand Arianna, you must first understand Elli. Born to a family that escaped to Greece from Russia during the revolution of 1917, Elli met her husband, a World War II concentration camp survivor, while recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium outside Athens. Before she left him, fed up with his chronic philandering, she brought…
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Have you ever been fired? Do you know why? In “3 Clues You Were a Bad Intern,” Christina—whom I fired 14 years ago—talks about breaking unwritten rules of the professional world. Signs you’re doing it wrong, if you will. But what I’d like to ask is this: Is there only one way, one set of…
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When she was 5 years old, Sophia Amoruso picked up a red string and ran outside with it flying behind her. She told the rest of the neighborhood kids it was a kite. “Soon everyone had red strings and we all ran together, our kites high in the sky,” she writes in her debut book,…
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When Steve Wynn enters a room, the air changes. Especially if the room is at Wynn Las Vegas, where he maintains a villa overlooking his hotel’s golf course. This is a man who seldom has an idle moment, who’s almost preternaturally on his game and expects those around him to be on theirs, too. Having…
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It was 11:52 p.m. on Dec. 22—the final frantic stretch of the 2012 holiday shopping season—when the one-day shipping order rolled into the company’s West Coast servers. Somebody somewhere wanted a pair of Roxy Hot Cocoa slippers delivered to Fayetteville, Ga. Amazon’s fulfillment centers were operating at breakneck speed. On Nov. 26, the Monday after…
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Here’s an inside peek into what was said during the Television Critics Association press tour: “You absorb like a sponge in this business every single opportunity and every single piece of advice and all the thinking that’s around you, and it’s up to you to use all that to take it to the next level.”…
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