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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane?

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK.

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How To Use A Reward Credit Card To Earn Free Travel

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You could take your daughter to France and Italy for a two and a half week vacation, for example. The Sapphire Preferred Card is embedded with chip technology , so there’s no trouble using the card overseas where they use a four digit pin code instead of signatures. Two round-trip, economy-class tickets cost just 80,000 points.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. I’m long on payment technologies. I’m long. I’m long the cloud.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

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Currently available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA. Renters can chose to book parking spaces lasting from half an hour to over a year, filtering by date, distance and by type (driveway, garage, car park).

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

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Suppliers in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology or professional services space, need to pay special attention, as these industries have above average DSO. On a macro level it has led some countries, like Italy, Spain and Portugal, into a vicious cycle, with billions of dollars tied up in overdue invoices. Anthony Coundouris.

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Twitter Link Roundup #80 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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The image above is a photo of Manarola, Italy – a small town in northern Italy. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! image credit: EpicV27.