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Sell your Company, not your Soul
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.” - Thoreau On May 31, I emailed 2,000 customers, investors, and friends, to announce that Sqoot, my livelihood for the past three years, was...
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To Each His Own
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” At first, our paths were identical. We graduated from top 25 public universities with business degrees. We moved...
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$50K a Day: How Overconfidence Kills
“Be humble and paranoid.” - Nat Turner In May 2009, I made my firm $50,000 in a single day. With 250 trading days per year, I just found a $12,500,000 strategy and mid six-figure boner, I mean bonus....
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A for Effort; Four Triumphs of Nurture Over Nature
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain The mind and body can be taught to do amazing, unimaginable things. While there’s no clear resolution...
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Against All Odds
“Never stop. Never settle.” It’s no coincidence that the most desired things, animate or not, are also the most rare and difficult to attain. While desire is subjective, and varies from person to...
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Overnight Celebrity
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” - Biz Stone Overnight Celebrity is the second single from Twista’s 2004 album Kamikaze....
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Hungry Hungry Hip-Mo
“Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.” - Michael Caine In 2004, after graduating from UMich and watching Boiler Room, I was hungry to work on Wall St. After...
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Mo-wed Down - The Anatomy of 2 Incidents that Brought Me to My Knees
“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes." - Richard Bach Life’s a bitch. It’s no secret. We ride the roller coaster daily. We’re giddy on the way up and terrified on the...
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Mexi-Can - How to Find a Way to do Anything
“Where there is a will there is a way.” - Samuel Smiles I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm the most resourceful. I’m not afraid to solve problems unconventionally. I find a way to “make it...
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Money, Honey
For years, this was my motto. After wanting to be a doctor my whole life, I watched Boiler Room as an impressionable college Sophomore, and discarded my lifelong passion for science (fetal pig...
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