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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

Real Estate Appraisal - Combines an interest in real estate and allows for a guaranteed paycheck. Electrofishing - A pal of mine performs fisheries research in Canada and gets to catch fish all day with electricity to determine populations, tag the fish and release them back into the wild. BEST JOB EVER.

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19 Tips & Ideas on Starting & Running Your Own Business

Miles Anthony Smith

While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. For example, you wouldn't want to launch a product or service in the housing industry during the real estate crash of 2008/2009.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business Review

Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. Swapping bagels and donuts for egg sandwiches, breakfast tacos, or yogurt parfaits (protein and low-glycemic foods) can help to prevent these wild swings in blood glucose. What kind of technology infrastructure will be required to keep the employee connected?

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice).

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.