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Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Interviewing for many small business owners is more of an art than a science, relying on gut instinct and a collection of carefully… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…
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The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Surely you’ve heard of crowd funding sites like Kickstarter that have helped thousands of filmmakers, musicians and painters leverage Facebook and Twitter to raise money for creative projects. But crowd funding isn’t just for hipste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…
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Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its existence, the online handmade a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…
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Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders

Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-commerce mobile app and website that launches today, is attempting to take…
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It is possible to be a happy, financially stable freelancer

How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talking to creative freelancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeated: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/Mtogd…
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How Facebook Photos Go Viral

Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may recognize from the original Star Trek series, has a knack for posting viral photos on Facebook. Recently, the social media giant asked Stamen, a San Francisco design firm, to create a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to…
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Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York

Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City By Dave Mosher, popsci.com Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous “Factory of the Future” in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year. The world’s biggest 3-D printing… http://flpbd.it/vyKIx Related articles Man sends…
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3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

(via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…
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The Best iPhone Apps

gizmodo.com There’s an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you’re a salty old dog seeing what you might’ve missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Social Twitter: Twitter thankfully… http://flpbd.it/cdICD The Best iPhone Apps Related articles The Best Alternatives for Almost Every Pre-Loaded iPhone…
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7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com Related articles Afghan president orders US forces out of key province – NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com) Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 – Reuters (reuters.com)
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Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting…
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Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work

Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work | Fast Company Related articles 5 Easy Steps To Make Your Job Descriptions Go Viral (mashable.com) Job Hunting? (RED) and 180+ Others Are Hiring (mashable.com) Why Most Employees Wish They Had A Different Job (forbes.com)
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