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How My Old Job Secretly Prepared Me to Build a Thriving Business

Entrepreneur.com

I started my journalism career in 2004. I started my journalism career in 2004. By Kyle Christie Edited by Maria Bailey Jun 10, 2025 Share Copy Key Takeaways Here are 10 lessons I carried from the newsroom into entrepreneurship Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

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In 2004, she published her seminal book, Designing Sociable Robots , which presented her vision for social robots of the future. Especially for older adults living alone, simply having an entity acknowledging their presence positively benefited their emotional well-being and mental health.

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Economic Uncertainty and the Trend of Decline

Small Business Labs

These are the number of people covered by health insurance and the acceptance of gay marriage.  In 2004 just 31% of Americans reported they accepted gay marriage. The Economic Mobility Decline. Just two of trends showed increases.   The rapidly rising acceptance of gay marriage, BTW, is quite stunning.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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her mother Dr. Whitney Casares, pediatrician and founder of Modern Mommy Doc Photo courtesy of Ashlie Behm Photography Maternal child health care expert Dr. Casares founded Modern Mommy Doc , where she teaches career-minded moms to prioritize what matters most to them and to stop letting their to-do lists define them.

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How to Name Your Business

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For example, someone thinking about using the word “synergy” to name their health consulting company ought to reconsider. We rolled it out to the public in 2004. A quick Google search nets top results including SynergyHealthConcepts.com, TheSynergyCompany.com, SynergyHealthCare.org, SynergyHealthPLC.com, and on and on.

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The Magic of Intrapreneurship Within Organizations

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In a letter to would-be shareholders in 2004, the co-founders noted that the habit “empowers [employees] to be more creative and innovative,” and that many significant advances happened during that allocated time. Those advances include AdSense, Google News and Gmail. It’s not cost cutting,” she adds, to withhold these things.

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Building on your skills

Loosely Speaking

In 2009 – by implementing the Marketing Train System, even with several major life crisis’s ranging from the loss of her father, then her nanny of 2 years, her mother being ill, her own health issues, and other family issues – she TRIPLED her business by implementing this simple concept. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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