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I started my first company when I was 24 years old. It was called theAmplify, and was an influencer marketing platform right as the term “influencer...
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I start and end every day with reading. While I love to read novels, memoirs, historical fiction, and The New York Times, I’ve learned so much...
A few weeks ago during an all-employee meeting, our team was discussing whether or not to hold “lunch and learns.” If you’re unfamiliar with the concept,...
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Long before starting my own design studio, I had a realization. I had been working at one of the most admired brand identity firms in the...
If you search “great leadership qualities,” you’ll find no shortage of articles promising to supply the recipe to fame and fortune. But a few generic character...
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Joe Gardner
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Richard Newman
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Brian D. Evans
People with an atypical mindset use what doesn’t work as a way to find opportunities that everyone else is ignoring.
Sami Rusani
Whether you’re giving an impromptu sales pitch or trying to make friends in a bar, your ability to connect is...
JC Grubbs
A strong privacy policy is a serious competitive advantage for a business. After all, if data is your stock and...
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Here’s why storytelling, patient data-driven marketing, and—imagine this—offline marketing need to be part of your marketing strategy in 2019 and...
Jeff Byers
I told myself that not only would I work in the offseason, but I would find a job that required...
Bibop Gresta
Sustainability isn’t just about how the product is created. It’s also very much about how the product is destroyed. This...
Joe Gardner
If you’re an investor, know that these pieces must be in place before you invest in a startup: The founders...
Minutes Staff
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Matthew Jones
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Matthew Jones
Capitalism turns people into commodities. People, in all of their complexities, get reduced to titles, net worth, and are only viewed...
Dan Moore
The other morning I woke to a bombardment of millennial tropes. They came from my timelines and news feeds, my...
Nicolas Cole
You’ve heard the term “mid-life crisis.” It’s that time in every person’s life when they wake up one morning, their...
Nicolas Cole
The term "thought leadership" is a fairly new one in the marketing world.
Nicolas Cole
A resume is nothing but a list of skills. Here's what's missing.
Nicolas Cole
This is precisely why improvement and growth is a process--not a destination.
Nicolas Cole
This 1 shift will immediately put you in a better mental state.
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Nicolas Cole
That person with 1M followers? They might not be as influential as you think...