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Posted September 18, 2013
Here’s one of the biggest conundrums of life: You have, without a doubt, a limited amount of time on this planet. At some point, you will be gone. At that point, what you’d like to happen as you lie on your deathbed, is to not have any regrets for wasting your time here. This is
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Posted August 29, 2013
Many of this generation’s entrepreneurs are younger people with tons of programming/web design experience under their belt, gained from childhood interest or internships or both. This week’s Self Made Man, Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin (whose name could be a minor character in a Chekov play), didn’t have either of those things and he still
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Posted August 12, 2013
Let your money work for you. That phrase is, for better or worse, the end-all, be-all of financial advice. Which certainly makes sense. If you have some money then you want to be able to use that to make more money. But one of the ways to make money, in a way, is certainly not
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Posted July 25, 2013
We profile a lot of successful individuals here at TSB, but this week I thought I’d take a different approach and compile the business/life advice that helped some self-made men reach their goals, and then reach beyond them.
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Posted June 20, 2013
A decent amount of the successful men profiled in this Self Made Men column were precocious go-getters as kids, but they were still kids, and they generally didn’t start getting serious and making money until they were at least old enough to vote.
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Posted May 20, 2013
One of the best decisions of our life was, one day, about five years ago, quitting our job just to work freelance full-time. It was a risk — at that time we weren’t making nearly enough to survive — but the thought process was that we could work for ourselves, whenever we want, and maybe
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Posted May 9, 2013
The last time Whole Foods co-founder/former CEO John Mackey made the news, it was for his controversial statements about global warming and Obama’s health care plan. Take those however you will, but there’s more to Mackey than that. The story of how Whole Foods became the Starbucks of organic food (and I mean that in
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Posted May 2, 2013
Huy Fong Foods—makers of Sriracha hot sauce—isn’t your typical start-up business. They don’t have an official Facebook page or Twitter account, they don’t seek out much press, and they don’t even advertise their hot sauce beyond a plain-spoken website. In a business climate that preaches nonstop consumer outreach, Huy Fong stands calmly aloof from their
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Posted April 11, 2013
It’s easy to get the impression that tech and social media are the only worthwhile fields for entrepreneurs to get involved in. I mean, look how many of TSB’s Self Made Man columns are about ambitious programmers and web gurus. It’s not an intentional bias by any means, but the Internet is still a fairly
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