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Posted October 18, 2012
I’m sure you’ve noticed that most of the Self Made Men I’ve profiled so far have been self-employed; entrepreneurship, after all, doesn’t really lend itself to punching a clock and taking orders. This week’s Self Made Man, former WWE writer Court Bauer, is unique in that he started his own company?Major League Wrestling?and only worked
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Posted October 4, 2012
Since we profiled Hugh Hefner’s career as a self made man a couple of weeks ago, it would be downright ungallant of TSB to ignore his counterpart, Hustler founder Larry Flynt. Flynt is a very controversial figure, and thrives on that, and his outlook on sexuality is much different (at least on the surface) than
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Posted September 27, 2012
Okay, so we all know who Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash are. We know their songs. We’ve seen the movies and TV specials made about their lives. We may have even visited their respective museums (seriously, go to Graceland. It’s worth the money). But for everything those three men did in
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Posted September 20, 2012
We’ve talked about many different kinds of entrepreneurs in this column, and they come from all sorts of backgrounds, but we haven’t spent a lot of time talking about sports entrepreneurs. Granted, their journey is different than that of your typical self-starter businessman, and a lot of them run into financial trouble after their athletic
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Posted August 30, 2012
So apparently there were a lot of noteworthy people named Bill Graham. Too many, actually. So far I’ve counted three boxers, one professional wrestler, two politicians (one Canadian, one Australian), an evangelist who loved Richard Nixon, and a jazz saxophonist, among others. Consequently, it took a minute for me to come with anything about the
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Posted August 9, 2012
When you hear the term ?fashion entrepreneur,? you probably think of someone artsy, either in an uber-chic or cartoonishly outrageous sort of way, who lives in Paris or New York and spends his afternoons swatting models on the calves with a riding crop as they pass down the runway. That’s not totally inaccurate, but one
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Posted August 2, 2012
While looking up entrepreneurs to profile in future columns, I stumbled upon? this list of leadership lessons from Jeff Bezos, space-obsessed billionaire and chairman/CEO of Amazon.com. I was impressed that anyone as immersed in corporate culture as Bezos would even think to say things like ?we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of
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Posted July 12, 2012
There’s been a lot of talk lately, as there is with every presidential election, about how rich the primary candidates are, and how detached they must be from the plight of the average American. This is a callous and unfair assumption that is nonetheless completely true. I mean, most of our presidents have come from
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Posted June 28, 2012
We’ve looked at a few pro wrestling personalities since the introduction of this column, but they’ve all been fairly well known ? I mean, say what you want about Vince McMahon, but he’s hardly cloaked in obscurity. There was a time, though, that wrestling was full of entrepreneurs who successfully promoted wrestling events in local
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Posted June 20, 2012
Dollar bills. Most of us wish we had more of them, yet most of us don?t do too much to grow our funds. I can assure you that almost all of the millionaires and billionaires you see on the TV screen learned to be frugal with their money many years ago. Frugality doesn?t have to
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Posted May 17, 2012
Modern-day Hollywood might be a hellscape of nepotism and failing upward, but old-school Hollywood was built by a lot of young, hungry go-getters with something to prove to themselves, their families, or both. Hal Roach, founder of Hal Roach Studios, was one of those guys, and he became a major player in film and television
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