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Joey Flores

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Last week we talked about understanding opportunity cost – the cost of using resources for one thing at the expense of having them for something else.  It does you no good to secure money, talent, or anything else for your company, if you misuse those assets and don’t apply them to the right things at [...]

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Young Professional On the Phone

YSN is lucky to have an audience of motivated, ambitious, career-minded people – many of whom are young and have long amazing professional lives ahead of them.  A lot of these go-getters are entrepreneurial in spirit and will one day, if not already, own their own business.  Earlier this year I founded my own company, [...]

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Living the life of an entrepreneur is exciting, challenging, rewarding and fun, and when it comes time to take your ideas and business to the next level – choosing the right team can make or break your path to success. Finding the right people to partner with or hire isn’t easy, so here are some things to look for as you assemble your own dream team.

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Every year, the Dr. Seuss classic “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” sells close to 300,000 copies, primarily because it’s one of the most popular high school and college graduation gifts in the US. Thanks, Mom, Dad and Grandma! Now, I can go off into the world and achieve! No offense to the Dr., but here are 5 real graduation gifts – for the millions of college graduates entering the worst job market in decades – that are bound to be more helpful than a book written for 3rd graders.

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As a VP-level professional with two-foot dreadlocks and a tendency toward wearing flip flops in the office, I couldn’t pass up the temptation to chime in about Ellen Gordon Reeves’s new book, “Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?”

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