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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

They purchase lottery tickets, frequent casinos, and buy magazines from Publishers Clearing House in the hopes of “instantly becoming a multi-millionaire!”. This lesson reinforced my natural inclination to ignore Conventional Wisdom and pursue contrarian opportunities. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Lighting The Match.

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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

They purchase lottery tickets, frequent casinos, and buy magazines from Publishers Clearing House in the hopes of “instantly becoming a multi-millionaire!”. This lesson reinforced my natural inclination to ignore Conventional Wisdom and pursue contrarian opportunities. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Lighting The Match.

Guide 145
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Know When To Declare Defeat And Toss Out A Bad Idea – Do Not Be Afraid To Say, “That Baby Be Ugly!”

InfoChachkie

In the early 1960s, conventional wisdom in the music industry did not lend itself to a systematic manner of evaluating creative content. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine rated What’s Going On #6 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was.