Oct 03, 2019
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Success doesn’t happen in a lazy, hit-or-miss, haphazard fashion. Adopting these eight traits might help you find the success you’ve been looking for. Psychologist Denis Waitley’s approach to winning with self-awareness and self-esteem puts an exclamation point on the idea that most often success comes from within. One measure of entrepreneurial success is your effectiveness […]
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Sep 18, 2019
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Perched high above the Pacific Ocean, in Southern California’s exclusive Laguna Beach community, is a cliff-side compound that’s on the market for $35 million. (Click here to see the video of this amazing home.) But it didn’t always look like this. “Originally it was a cottage, almost like a shack in disrepair,” explains homeowner and […]
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Jul 24, 2019
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After more than a decade of planning, including a three-year legal battle, the $1 billion 5M project broke ground on Thursday. Developer Brookfield Properties and partner Hearst, owner of The Chronicle, will transform four acres of parking lots and vacant buildings at 5th and Mission streets with two new towers, a 200-foot apartment building, two […]
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Jun 27, 2019
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Peer-to-peer marketplace apps are all about getting rid of the often expensive and usually time-consuming intermediary process and connecting users directly to the services they need. This way of doing business has become popular with everything from vacation rentals a la Airbnb to ride sharing via Uber and Lyft. That desire for convenience — and […]
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Jun 14, 2019
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Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires learning that goes beyond how to just run numbers and manage finances. As someone who has been an entrepreneur for more than two decades, I can tell you that while these elements certainly play a role, actually doing something significant with your particular business’s numbers requires creativity, leadership ability and […]
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Jun 14, 2019
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What if the inherent weaknesses of a material actually made houses and buildings stronger during wildfires and earthquakes? Purdue University researchers have 3D-printed cement paste, a key ingredient of the concrete and mortar used to build various elements of infrastructure, that gets tougher under pressure like the shells of arthropods such as lobsters and beetles. […]
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Jun 06, 2019
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Brief: Virgin Trains USA’s plans to build a $4 billion high-speed rail system between Las Vegas and Southern California will likely be postponed for two years after developers failed to win tax abatements from Nevada lawmakers during the most recent legislative session, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. If the state legislature had approved the rail […]
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Apr 25, 2019
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The earth can be a sort of an unmarked time capsule in many areas. It holds secrets of the past, some of which were hoped to never be found, but others that people dream of finding. Almost every project requires excavation or demolition in some way, so keep your eyes peeled for the next great […]
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Apr 05, 2019
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For many contractors, financing existing jobs while investing in new work is a big balancing act that forces them to constantly weigh one financial obligation — i.e. payroll, taxes, subcontractors, material suppliers — against another. And the star of that act is cash. “Contractors don’t go out of business because they have lack of work […]
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Jan 20, 2019
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Knowing as much as possible about yourself helps you understand when to push and when you need to take a break. Professional athletes train hard and closely monitor what they put into their body. They have a team and even hire professionals on the side to help them reach peak state within their body and in their […]
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