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Swell Launches Social Impact Investing Platform

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Swell said it lets users invest as little as $500 into such themed investments in the areas of green technology, renewable energy, zero waste, clean water, healthy living, and disease eradication. Swell said it was incubated by Pacific Life, with creative help from IDEO, and software development from Carbon Five.

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How To Know It’s Time To Exit Your Company Gracefully

Startup Professionals Musings

The more diverse your experiences, the better the prospects for forging a new chapter in your life. Live life incrementally. By carefully staging your departure, you’ll build confidence for your new life. As their legacy erodes, they fail to prepare for the next season of their lives. Stage your exit. Back into it.

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7 Personal Habits Let You Have Fun While Working Hard

Startup Professionals Musings

Although novelty is important in our lives, good work habit building is about opening up bandwidth in our brain to attend to things that we often take for granted, or ignore because we are too emotionally bogged down, like timely and positive response to phone calls and email. Targeted – integrate new habits into a healthy lifestyle.

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Friendship + Mentorship = Friendtorship

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However, too often, entrepreneurs allow their non-work friendships to wither, as they struggle to maintain a healthy relationship with their family while nurturing their startups. 3) Friendship is based on mutual admiration and reciprocity, causing people to live up to their friends’ high regard. Make a friend. Be a mentor.

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5 Keys To Spending Your Time On The Right Work Items

Startup Professionals Musings

There are only two sources of energy: a clear and motivating purpose, and a healthy body. Manage the five primary energy drivers of moving, eating, sleeping, relaxing, and connecting to create a pattern of life that fuels your fire and keeps you from burning out before your startup achieves success. Fuel your fire, don’t burn out.

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Start Your Company Where You Want To Live – Period

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Thus, the "best" place for you to start your company is the community you want to live in. However, we knew we wanted to live in Santa Barbara and we were not willing to sacrifice our entrepreneurial dreams to live in paradise. Life Ain''t Your Hobby. Don''t believe the hype. Sound like crazy advice? Home Field Advantage.

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We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness

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. “You’d imagine your favorite founder, VC, blogger, political figure, billionaire, whatever has a stress free life pontificating about how to build the next really cool, society-altering product or changing a city, state or country. But of course life isn’t like this. Life isn’t that bad. As a society.

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