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When Should Founders Start Thinking About Communities?

The quality of your business will be formed based on the foundation that you build the business on. If you culture does not value the voice of your customers, that would build a foundation that becomes part of the values. So if you start with a fundamental belief and investment in your community, you can create a strong foundation of a feature for your business.


How Do You Help Your Children To Maximize Their Strengths?

First you have to spend time with your kids to figure out who they are; you have to tune into their personality. Mike, the host of 2 Cent Dad, is homeschooling their 4 kids so he gets to see their progress very closely. He can see that while one kid might be better at math, the other might be better at reading. It doesn't make any sense to force them all into the same track. Forcing kids to do something only creates more conflict and barriers. Instead, if you can figure out what your children excel in and encourage that, allowing them to self-pace their learning. You will be surprised how far they could take it.


How Can A Startup Founder Set Ambitious Goals While Also Keeping The Team Motivated In The Day To Day?

The bigger your goals, the longer it takes to achieve them, and ambitious goals should not be easy, by definition. At the same time it's important to make sure your goals are challenging, but achievable. Once you set the goals and are working on them, it helps to set check-in times and evaluate your progress. If you are making a lot of progress, perhaps you did not set goals high enough. If you're stuck, maybe it is worth it to scale down.


Who Is The Next Client Who Does Not Know That They Need Fuel ?

Fuel has added to their business and is not only working with startups, but also larger enterprise clients. The hiring managers within those larger clients are the ones who may not know what Fuel Talent has to offer.


How Can You Help Students Focus?

If you want to engage a student that is not paying attention, it helps to call on them with a question, and even if they cannot answer the question, once someone else provided the answer, it's important to circle back and ask the first student to repeat. By doing this consistently, over time, the class learns to expect questions at all times, but also that non-knowing does not put on one a tough position, and it is okay to make mistakes.


What Did Belinda Have In Her Briefcase?

She pulls out her crumpled, skimpy, and extremely revealing evening gown.


What Is The Ultimate Purpose Of Money?

Money should enable you to not be in a specific place and a specific time, doing anything you don't want to do.


How Did Dave Schappell Settle On My Perfect Color.Com As His Next Opportunity?

Dave wrote down what he wanted to work on, being brutally honest about it with himself. Dave wanted to work on a real product, with real margins and real customers. Working with a friend was a plus too. Jason's company fit in the criteria.


What Are The Downsides Of Hosting A Website On The Cloud?

Modern websites might not cost a lot to host on the cloud until they explode in popularity, when services that used to be cheap end up consuming a ton, and overall costs blow up without you noticing.


What Happens To Your Brain When You Hallucinate?

When you hallucinate, most parts of your brain become extra active; 30% more active than when you're awake. For example, visual, motor, emotional and memory centers, they all increase in activity. Meanwhile, prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain so to speak, good, rational, logical thinking part, it gets shut off.

That's why you see things, why you have motor kinesthetic activity, why things feel so emotional, but also why things seem illogical and irrational.


What Is Wrong With Social Media Trying To Solve Covid19 Problems?

Om thinks that too many people are pretending to be experts on everything. Instead, he says it's okay to come to terms with not knowing, and to let actual experts to solve certain problems.

Bijan speculates that people are trying to have a conversation about the problems at hand, speculating on a solution, and it just does not come across in the right away.


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