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A 100-year-old knife has modern-day lessons
2015-01-07 02:26:00| Beef
Technologies contributing to efficiency in modern agricultural production continue to evolve, with the result being that less than 2% of Americans need to be involved in agriculture. Our population continues to migrate to cities, where they only have to spend about 6.6% of annual consumer expenditures on food. Vet's Opinion read more
History Lessons: 200-Year-Old Murder Well Lurks in Unassuming Soho Store
2015-01-05 22:02:42| Real Estate - Topix.net
In his latest adventure, Nick Carr of Scouting NY bravely enters the newly opened COS store at 129 Spring Street in Soho to check out a preserved well where a murdered lady was found in the 18th century. Racked has covered this before , but it's worth revisiting mainly because it's such an fascinating story: On December 22, 1799, a young woman named Gulielma Elmore Sands left her boarding home to elope with her secret lover, Levi Weeks.
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6 Vital Lessons from Highly Successful Founders
2015-01-02 16:05:04| IT Services - Topix.net
So which lessons did Adam Quinton, one of our City Meetup Speakers, learn in 2014 from six of his successful startup investees? I typically post on what makes a great founder/entrepreneur and expand on lists of keywords, which are mostly pretty self-evident and yet also often contradictory when you then compare different versions of similar posts! Rather than repeat that exercise I've tried to identify more concrete and actionable "habits" that successful founders favour. These are nitty gritty execution tactics and strategies that have taught me, as an investor and advisor, a lot of practical startup wisdom.
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Top 10 lessons from the CEO of a $360M platform
2014-12-26 14:03:57| Real Estate - Topix.net
When I started Urban Compass, I did my best not to make any assumptions about the real estate industry. Although I worked as an agent with my mother to help pay for my college tuition, my professional career after college was primarily in management consulting and private equity.
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Ken Keller: Lessons learned at the food court
2014-12-20 07:17:57| Beverages - Topix.net
Almost everyone looks back at their career at some point. The good times are remembered, the tough times are recalled, and the things learned that might apply to what they are doing at the moment surface.
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