Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean were in Cabaret, Haiti on Saturday to distribute food and oil to people affected by Hurricane Ike. Wyclef has long been active in his home country, but he brought Matt along to attract attention to the region, which has been devastated after being hit by multiple storms this Summer. The charitable duo just left Toronto after the OneXOne gala, which benefited children’s funds, so it seems as though Wyclef and Matt have a good thing going helping out together.
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The web enables us to listen to music, watch tv shows and follow the latest news all without paying a cent. But while things are slowly but surely becoming free, I still believe people are willing to pay for certain value propositions.
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I believe the following 5 things are uniquely profitable in a world of free:
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Almost all of us have our own weaknesses when it comes to illustrating particular subjects. I, personally, can not draw a horse to save my life. I can’t imagine a situation where the difference between my life and death depends on my ability to draw a horse, but still, it’s haunted me for years.
I’ve talked about my lack of ability to draw horses to many of my artist friends and peers. To my surprise, many of them recounted me their own secret, shameful inabilities to draw all sorts of subjects including hands, proportions, machinery etc…
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Shuttling between tech meetups, VC meetings and conferences, I realized that there are so many types of entrepreneurs that it would be a mistake to group them all under one general umbrella. So I tried to correct that horrible wrong with this list of all entrepreneur types from A-Z.
Classic example of a fantrepreneur photo courtesy of Phil Hawksworth
ALL ENTREPRENEURS FROM A - Z
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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mo, and I am the newest bird to join the Aviary. I’m thrilled to be part of a team of such superstars, and am excited to once again be working with Iz and Avi whom I have worked with previously during the early stages of Worth1000, where I helped design the architecture.
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I love starting new jobs. The promise and potential of a new role is exciting. There’s something that makes me feel good when I sit down at my new desk and the surface is still visible. I actually get a little turned on using a new computer with a clean desktop before all of these random files and folders named “New Requirements Version 1a - old.doc”, “New Folder 2″ and “Do Not Delete” clutter it up.
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There is nothing quite like the feeling of watching someone realize for the first time that they really can do something new. You know - that moment when someone finally figures it out after weeks of trying, when their eyes light up, they smile big and practically run to try it again; to prove to themselves that they didn’t dream the whole thing. That moment.
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I love that moment, and I guess I’ve made a lifelong habit of seeking it out wherever I can. When I taught piano to small children, this was a near-daily event, either in my students’ lessons themselves, or in the stories they told me in our downtime. For children, a constant stream of new learning is a regular event and something they don’t seem to question ever, as natural as breathing and a normal part of every day life. But at some point, most of us lose that momentum. We forget our ability to devour new information and the emotional rewards that come along with it. We get complacent and stale, and subsequently, stuck in a rut that can be very hard to escape from.
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