Advice

Rock That Meeting

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Advice

You’ve been pushing your product or service pretty hard and you’ve finally landed a meeting with someone (or a group of someones) who want to give you money.  They either want to pay you to help you further develop your idea or they want to pay you to provide your services to them.  It’s one… Read More

5 Reasons Why We Undervalue Ourselves and Our Companies

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Advice

Regardless if you are male or female, executive or entrepreneur, every day you deal with your worst critic: yourself. Each day you have a little voice that taunts you about how you’re not worth the amount for the project you’re bidding on; or if you don’t lower your prices to an unsustainable level, you’ll never… Read More

The Handshake vs Push-a-Button Profile

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Advice, HR

Modern times have almost done away with meet-and-greet networking. It is exceptionally easy to go on professional networking sites and click to “connect” to someone you may or may not know. It takes care of the fear and the supposedly wasted-time going to meet others. It’s all about the quantity of people you know, right? Wrong. My friend and I… Read More

3 Fixable Bumps in the Road

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Advice, Building Your Business, Growing Your Business

It’s inevitable, really.  Everyone who starts a business reaches a point where things aren’t going perfectly.  And it’s hard to know whether or not that imperfection is temporary or permanent. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen self-imposed ultimatums, always the result of that inevitable bump, come and go.  My freshman year alone,… Read More

How Sleep Can Mess You Up

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Advice, Startup Life

We’re all in school.  Among homework, class, running our business and what’s left of our social life, sleep doesn’t get much attention.  Personally, I’m happy if I hit 6 hours a night during the semester.  But apparently it’s bad for your body outside of the whole being tired thing (which I’m getting a little tired… Read More

How I Did It: Yellow Box Studios

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Advice, How I Did It

In fifth grade, I tried making a movie.  It was a western.  It had a twelve person cast.  It required a desert.  It was ambitious and it never got made, though I did host a few table-reads. Four years later, I made my first film – The Ballad of Chuck Carlson: A Semi-True Story.  It… Read More