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5 Ways to Sink Your Date Before It’s Begun

By Scott Bishop on January 14th 2010 in Relationships 33 comments

First dates are already nerve racking enough…don’t sabotage the whole operation before it’s began. Of course every individual has their own pet peeves’ and you certainly can’t, nor should you try, to please everyone. But I thought I’d focus on some general pointers that if done…will pretty much guarantee a second date phone call will [...]

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Personal Finance Really Isn’t That Complicated

By J. Money on January 14th 2010 in Personal Finance 24 comments

If there’s anything I’ve learned over the years, it’s that people sure like to complicate things. They do it at their jobs, they do it at home, and they certainly do with with their finances. In fact, I’ve come to realize that there are 2 very different types of people out there – the ones [...]

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Thinking Outside of the Resume

By Rich DeMatteo on January 13th 2010 in Career 64 comments

Your resume bores me. Nothing personal, its just resumes in general are boring. When have you ever said, “S*&#, I can’t wait to write up my CV”? Right, you haven’t, because they are boring. Do you think recruiter’s get excited to read 78 resumes for an open accounting position? Of course not, at least I [...]

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Make Bank Painting Houses

By Sean Ogle on January 13th 2010 in Business 15 comments

So chances are, most of the entrepreneurship related articles that you read these days consist of how to make a killing on the internet. That seems to be the new cool thing, and hey, that’s what I am trying to do at the moment, so I have nothing against it, but there are definitely other [...]

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Toy Speculation: A New way of Investing

By Brian Scheur on January 12th 2010 in Personal Finance 16 comments

I was a child of the early 80’s and I remember growing up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joe’s covering my bedroom floor. At $2.99 a pop, the average G.I. Joe provided hours of entertainment, usually culminating with my mother yelling at me to put them all away in my toy chest. I [...]

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How to Fall in Love

By Nicole Antoinette on January 12th 2010 in Relationships 46 comments

Dating in your 20s: what a complicated mess. I tend to remember all of my 20-something relationships by the part before they happened and the part after. The hook up and the break up. But there’s also the part in the middle, the part where one person is all, “let’s not get naked with anyone [...]

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Which path should you take: Corporate Professional vs Entrepreneur

By Jun Loayza on January 12th 2010 in Entrepreneurship 34 comments

At times I feel entrepreneurs are too critical of the corporate world. Sure it involves a lot of grunt work and ass-kissing to move up the corporate ladder, but there are A LOT of benefits to learning from the corporate world that the startup life just doesn’t provide. At the same time, just because you [...]

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What Do You Need to Start Living the Untemplated Life?

By Monica on January 11th 2010 in Untemplate 4 comments

Note: these giveaways are now closed. We have some awesome giveaways coming up in the next few weeks and we want YOU to take a shot at them! Each of our giveaways is meant to further your goals, whatever they are – from developing a stronger brand online to starting a new company to starting [...]

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Dealing With Financial Peer Pressure

By MD on January 11th 2010 in Personal Finance 29 comments

As a twenty-something it’s really easy to give in to the financial peer pressure that surrounds us in many different ways on a daily basis. Your family members all buy new cars. Why would you want to purchase a used vehicle? Your friends go clubbing every weekend. Why would you want to stay in? Your [...]

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