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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

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You work hard for your money and have lost track of how many times you’ve gone above and beyond to help a co-worker or put in overtime to finish a project. You’re out at a restaurant or a bar with some friends and you want to split the bill, but you don’t have cash. Not considering how many hours (not dollars) something costs.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

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He was on the set of Inside the NBA, where he’s been an analyst since 2011, the year he retired from his playing career. When he eats at restaurants, he leaves famously humongous tips. A few years ago, Shaq shared his idea for how to save gas with a national TV audience. Making people smile , he tells me, is his biggest goal in life.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Unfortunately, the entire experience was spoiled by an incident at a popular breakfast restaurant. Anytime I thought about the trip or the project came up as a topic of conversation in meetings, I found myself spiraling down a path of worst-case scenarios: What if the server had put something in my food? What brings you to town?”

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

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Eventually, Carrie became a best-selling book and a successful movie, and King’s ensuing books have sold more than 350 million copies, with myriad others being made into profitable television and film projects. After that setback, Jordan once noted, he went on to experience failure throughout his playing days.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

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Businesses have to incur lots of expenditures just to operate, including payroll , acquiring assets like vehicles & real estate, and day-to-day expenses (like a restaurant maintaining their inventory of condiments, food ingredients, and beverages). Primarily, if your business venture fails, you’ll lose your entire retirement fund/401k.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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I want my financial future to be bright and to have no worries when I’m older and ready to retire. When we say “no” to a business, social or community project, invitation or event, we are also saying “no” to the serendipitous benefits that arise. I graduated from college, and I needed to start planning out my financial future.

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

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Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.   Lafayette, CA, a small San Francisco suburb has created a restaurant cluster called  Restaurant Row.  Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research.

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