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Shatterbox: young entrepreneurs making their mark

by Ope Bukola December 1, 2010
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When I need inspiration, I usually turn to the blog at fastcompany.com. Yesterday, I came across this interview with young entrepreneur Alexa Von Tobel. Alexa turned her desire to understand her personal finances into a media company that has raised millions of dollars in funding: The video is sponsored by Shatterbox, a great organization started [...]

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Personal brand maven – Erica Nicole of Young, Fabulous, and Self Employed

by Ope Bukola November 17, 2010
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Erica Nicole is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of YFS Magazine. Young, Fabulous and Self Employed is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and would be innovators achieve their dreams. Nicole, an advertising and marketing guru, is the Managing Principal and CEO of Dallas-based Socialista Media + Marketing Group. She spoke to Z&A about how she built her [...]

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Running to change the world

by Ope Bukola October 11, 2010
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“For you will find, as women have found through the ages, that changing the world requires a lot of free time. Requires a lot of mobility. Requires money, and, as Virginia Woolf put it so well, “a room of one’s own,” preferably one with a key and a lock.” – Alice Walker, In Search of [...]

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The creative entrepreneur

by July 12, 2010
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When I graduated from college, I had an amazing non-profit job waiting for me.  I moved from Newark, DE to Baltimore and was ready to begin my journey of saving the world.  Three months in, and I was ready to try something new. I didn’t leave my job. In fact, I stayed there for nearly [...]

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Passion or Profit: Is Doing What You Love Smart in Today’s Economy?

by Ope Bukola July 8, 2010
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Forget Impossible is Nothing. They’re saying that some things are in fact not impossible. Those of us coming of age in the “Recession generation” may be the first American generation worse off than our parents. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the decisions we make in our twenties about how to work and what [...]

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Oh no! I’m a leader – How to step up when you weren’t expecting to lead

by June 16, 2010
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There’s been a lot of writing done about leadership styles; whether or not leadership is a matter of nature or nurture, highly effective habits of leaders, etc.  There are examples of leaders who have worked from entry level to corner office, and those who were groomed for leadership as a family inheritance.  What we don’t [...]

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