Adam Chavez

I like reading Godin’s ideas because he always seems to word things uniquely enough to make old ideas seem new.
This article is called How to Make Money Online.

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This is gearing up to be an exciting week for BYU entrepreneurship. Check out the events below!
Entrepreneurs Anonymous This is a think-tank event where participants are separated into groups of students with diverse backgrounds and talents. You will be given the opportunity to briefly pitch to the group about yourself and your business idea [...]

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Three things determine where you will end up in life, in business, and at home. They do not include luck, technology, contacts, or insider information, although all of those things can be added pushes along the way.
The first is what you are focusing on, what you desire, what you want deep down.
The second is what [...]

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So I’ve got a bit of a problem.
I’m only one person.
I only sit in class with 40 other people.
I’m in the Marriott School, where only a fraction of BYU’s population attends.
And I’m trying to meet web/tech entrepreneurs from all over campus so that I can introduce them to angel investors, service providers, and potential co-founders.
In [...]

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The best way for the economy to be helped is for entrepreneurs like you to take calculated risks and build new companies. 80% of new jobs come from startups, and the industries of tomorrow are built by the startups of today.
For a new book that is meant to inspire others to take entrepreneurial action and [...]

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“Microsoft was started during the recession of 1975, Hewlett-Packard was born during the Great Depression, Disney was founded during 1923, and GE started during the panic of 1873.”
Source [Emanuel Balarie, "4 Ways to Protect Your Wealth During This Recession" ]
Similarly, Google stepped out of the ashes of the tech bubble.
Hundreds of thousands of other, smaller [...]

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IMHO….
Click Here for The Art of the Start Speech, by Guy Kawasaki
Who is Guy Kawasaki?
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art [...]

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A funny, yet spot-on write-up by Kawasaki.
Click here for the short read

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With all the raw data that’s available in the public domain, there should be more / better ways to access the information. My friend Sebastian expressed his frustration with current options, “When I was writing a research paper where I had to do ‘methodological statistical analysis’ on big batches of government data I literally had [...]

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The best and brightest minds in the country have been investing their human capital into financial services because that’s where the big money has been for so long. People that would have been innovating in industries like technology, life sciences, and energy have not been. And that could all change now.
Year-to-date, over 100,000 jobs in [...]

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