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    Business ideas for a destroyed city

    IDEA 
    I've got a few suggestions for you, perhaps some are possible and some might not be possible if you do not have the right business contacts: Idea 1 I don't know what the experience you have had in the building industry is but if you have the right contacts perhaps you could structure a deal...
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    Sweden may be up for a change of it's Credit Rules

    Fannocks I read in your success story when you mentioned you were lobbying to change this law I never knew you had written a post about it...to the rest of the forum excuse the bump Did your efforts in petitioning your government contact ever result in a change to the 3/5 year credit mark rule?
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    The secret to successful web sites -- Requirements Definition

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Fantastic, the message you delivered for us to not focus on the function as much as the brand and/or content was great. This should be added to the legendary thread list on the mainpage
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    What is a reasonable cost to launch a site?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com/business-building-e-biz-internet/19136-secret-successful-web-sites-requirements-definition.html Andres has a great article on communicating with the developer to get the results you desire
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    How to attract businesses

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Without knowing what your service is no-one can give the perfect answer however your first step would be to get a small number of businesses using your service so you can ensure it provides the results you promise. Visit or call potential clients and give them a short pitch explaining how you...
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    My Introduction

    Awesome story A few questions: Did you work for a company after you graduated college or did you return to India immediately and proceed to start your first business? Were the guys you partnered with from Orlando university friends and finally what qualifications did you gain in college? Was...
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    Jackie Lange Intro

    Welcome Jackie, it is good to hear from another person with a great degree of success and I am looking forward to reading what you have to share with the forum. The story is also posted on the thread starters website, so it is technically a copy and paste job but it is still the creation of...
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    Really great guy, speech on Time Management

    MINDSET 
    Incase anyone missed it this is worth a watch As posted above the slides from the lecture are available in PDF form here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/RandyPauschTimeManagement2007.pdf It's 96 pages but features a lot of photos and minimal text on each page so it can be read...
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    Fastlane Vitality Virtue

    HOT! MINDSET 
    In saying that you can't really blame the FDA for encouraging the recall. In issuing a recall notice the FDA appears to be effectively looking out for the publics interest and the government worker who was in charge of the investigations now has grounds to appeal for a promotion for his...
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    Fastlane Vitality Virtue

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I am sure you will be fine. Millions of units were sold and from that supposedly 23 people have reported side effects due to the use of the product. No mention has been made of whether these people were taking more than the maximum 3 recommended per day and there was no mention of any pre...
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    Why do you think that?

    MINDSET 
    Great read, I have nothing to add but I'll bump this for others to see. This has potential to be a sticky in this section, speed+
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    SUCCESS STORY: Ecko

    EXECUTION 
    Ken Blockof DC shoes would be another one to look at If you have a highbeam subscription read about it here Founded the company in 1993 and sold it to Quicksilver INC in 2004 for an undisclosed amount of money, probably in the hundreds of millions As you can see he has a bit of fun in the...
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    How Two Friends Built a $100 Million Company

    TTT More people need to read this. This strategy was applied to cleaning products, what other industries do you guys see as being ideal to bring the same strategy to?
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    Ryan Deluca on the founding of bodybuilding.com

    EXECUTION 
    A couple cool things in the JTV video interview: He mentioned any articles and the purpose of the forums on bb.com are soely to help you get in shape, the company hopes the result will be you buying supps His first job was at blockbuster and he knew from a young age he was making someone...
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    Ryan Deluca on the founding of bodybuilding.com

    EXECUTION 
    This is a long 5 part story, he never got around to finishing it though but he might do that one day. Ryan Deluca is the CEO and founder of bodybuilding.com a business which he sold for $100million and one that is based around giving the best customer service and lowest prices in teh industry...
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    From CEO to Pizza Delivery

    Its not only about the school you attend but also the caliber of students you attend alongside. In many cases a good private school can set you up to network with the people who will be managers, engineers, financiers etc in the future and that can't hurt your fastlane plans now can it?
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    10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

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    I am sure most of you are convinced that being a business owner is the smart way to earn money, for those of you who aren't this is a good read 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
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    Runum!

    OFF-TOPIC 
    The E-Type is great. I love the Jap cars though like the 240Z which was inspired visually by the E-Type This is what I hope to have some day one of my favourite cars The other I love is the old Nissan Skyline KPCG10, here is a thread with pictures of a restoration project which sadly never...
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    Crazy guy loses his head

    In one of his shows, I believe it was Hells Kitchen he actually gave the opportunity for a bunch of unemployed young men and women to undertake an apprenticeship and become a chef in one of his (high end) restaurants. Some did buckle under the pressure, others realised the opportunity and put...
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    Crazy guy loses his head

    It's certainly not, no worker would not like to give their best to an employer who treats them in such a manner. He may just be a very angry man however I suspect he is infact a very smart man. Though his management style is not overly conductive to productivity it has brought him great riches...
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