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Posted March 21, 2013
I’ve been drinking Coke (and more recently, Coke Zero) for years now, but I never knew who invented it or how it became the global phenomenon (minus Cuba and North Korea) it is today. Luckily, this Self Made Man column justifies my curiosity about things like this, and it turns out that Coke was invented
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Posted March 7, 2013
The Costco members in TSB’s readership are going to like this week’s Self Made Men column, I think. We’re going to look at the career of former Costco CEO James Sinegal, whose concern for the well-being of his employees turned Costco into more than just a place to buy bulk-sized vats of Mott’s applesauce and
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Posted February 28, 2013
It’s not talked about often, but the video game industry is a hotbed of entrepreneurs. It feels like there’s a new indie game start-up every week (which will be bought wholesale by a larger company the following week), and anyone into video game culture probably knows at least one coder/programmer who regularly stays up until
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Posted December 24, 2012
People tend to throw caution to the wind and spend all sorts of money during the holiday season (whether they have it or not). I mean, it?s pretty easy to do so. With all of the holiday gifts, food, booze, vacations, outings, entertainment, etc., it can be easy to rack up a hefty bill. And
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Posted December 20, 2012
Benjamin Franklin, as we all know, was a man of many distinctions; Franklin was an author, a political theorist, a politician, a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, and a diplomat, and is remembered today as one of the most important figures of the American Enlightenment. He’s also celebrated by rowdier historians for all the sex
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Posted December 13, 2012
Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, has been the subject of some pretty heavy online discussion lately. A rape joke in one of his recent cartoons stirred up a lot of outrage among readers, as did his pissy attempt at an apology, and the whole mess led to a savage and inaccurate Buzzfeed article that
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Posted December 6, 2012
At first glance, Johnny Temple looks like your average, boring, early-40s Brooklyn professional. You’d never guess that he grew up on DC hardcore and played bass for Girls Against Boys before starting an independent publishing house known for dark, gritty, often profane books, including an internationally successful Noir series. But that’s exactly who he is,
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Posted November 29, 2012
Well, now that we’re all rested from our food comas and rid of our families (at least until Christmas rolls around in a few weeks), let’s return to the business of profiling self-made men and their successes. This week’s subject is quite a turnaround from the born-rich workaholics we’ve been profiling lately, but he’s accomplished
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Posted November 21, 2012
Anyone who has seen a SyFy Original Movie will understand, and perhaps even appreciate, the work of Roger Corman. Much like SyFy’s film division, Corman cranked out hundreds of B-movies on tight production schedules and limited budgets, and they all made money. Corman is extremely proud of this, to the point of naming his autobiography
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Posted November 15, 2012
I’m one of those weirdos who can eat ice cream all year, no matter how cold it gets outside, so it’s surprising that I haven’t talked about Ben and Jerry’s as a model of entrepreneurship. Not only did they start a business that became a hugely successful brand, they helped redefine what the corporate conscience
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Posted October 25, 2012
This week’s Self Made Man?Black Milk Clothing founder James Lillis?is a young self-starter who differs from many of the other young self-starters we’ve featured here. For one thing, he isn’t a tech or social media professional, and he didn’t attend (or drop out of) an Ivy League school. James Lillis is a clothing designer, which
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