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Building an Empire: Oprah’s Formative Years
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| Oprah’s ambition did not diminish with the success of The Oprah Winfrey Show. After her successful acting debut in The Colour Purple (1985), Oprah’s desire to expand into the film and television industry was further fueled. In 1988, Oprah became the third woman in the American entertainment industry to own her own studio when she created Harpo Studios. Oprah’s name read backwards, Harpo is a television and film production, magazine publishing and online media company in one. “I did this to really expand into the areas I wanted to and take over the show to create more time for me to do features and TV specials,” she said. |
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Lesson #2: Love Your Work
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| “The most important thing in life is to love what you’re dong,” says Trump, “because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.” |
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For Sale: Most Expensive VC Home in Country
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| Here's one way to sidestep having to raise money from LPs: Sell your house for $76-million. |
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Tips For Dealing With Contractors
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| This week we discuss how to find a capable building contractor to build out the location. And as this series has been thus far, this segment is based on my personal experience and offered to you warts and all. As with all of my columns only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, the ignorant, and the overly litigious. |
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Russell Simmons House
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| Apparently, he isn’t just a genius when it comes to hip hop and fashion; Russell Simmons knows what he’s doing in the world of real estate too. He owns a sprawling 35,000 square foot mansion in Saddle River, New Jersey – one of the largest homes on the eastern coast, a $5.3 million, 5,800 square foot mansion in Los Angeles, and a Manhattan penthouse. But, for now, it seems like this music mogul has had enough. Russell Simmons’ house in New Jersey is now up for sale. |
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Bill Gates House
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| There are certain perks that come along with being a multi-billionaire, and no one would know that better than Bill Gates. Worth an estimated $53 billion, there is little that this entrepreneur and Microsoft co-founder could not afford. But, more than any of his other purchases, it is something that was seven years in the making that continues to peak the public’s curiosity. Situated on a 5.15 acre lot overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington, Bill Gates’ house is 50,000 square feet of high-tech innovation and design. |
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The Buzzard, The Bat & The Bumblebee
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| The BUZZARD
If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top. |
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Getting Out of the Box
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| Many people set low ceilings on their expectations and capabilities. In the process, they place themselves in a "box." Alexander Whortley took that a step further and literally lived in a box. It was a mini-trailer, three feet wide, four feet long, and five feet high. He lived there until he died at the age of eighty. His box was made of wood, had a metal roof, and it housed him and all his meager belongings. Regardless of where he worked, Whortley chose to spend his life in that cramped space, even though larger, more comfortable quarters were always available. |
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Introduction to Self Storage Development
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| Self storage has seen some dramatic changes over the last few decades it has been in existence, especially in the last 15 years. In 1993, there were approximately 21,300 self storage facilities in the United States. Today, that number has more than doubled, with industry experts reporting roughly 60,000 facilities. Those facilities comprise more than 1.7 billion rentable square feet of storage space. |
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Introduction to Self Storage
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| Self Storage Association Definition: Self Storage facilities are real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage spaces to tenants who are to have access to such space for the purpose of storing and removing personal property. They offer rental on a month-to-month basis of individual spaces where customers provide their own lock and have sole access to their space. Today’s typical storage facility may comprise several one or two-story buildings on two to 6 acres of land, or a multiple-story building, containing a carefully designed unit mix of spaces. The units typically range in size from 5X5 to 10X30 feet with 30,000 to 120,000 total rentable square feet of space. |
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Public Speaker: Do Not Think on Your Feet
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| Public speakers should not think on their feet. Presenters who try to wing it often fail, and fail miserably. Trying to deliver your presentation by thinking on your feet is an attempt to wing it. Winging anything is like spinning the roulette wheel and hoping for the best. |
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Thinking On Your Feet
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| When you’re in any business, the ability to think on your feet is absolutely critical. When you can think on your feet, you appear in control to others around you, and you retain control of a conversation. This article defines the 5 steps for thinking on your feet – so you can organize your thoughts quickly and consicely. |
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Creative Content – Inspiration or Imitation?
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| In this era of mash ups, appropriation, homages, re-makes, the boundaries of creative content ownership are getting pretty blurred. A recent billboard campaign in Times Square, New York sparked a massive online debate recently. The eye-catching advertisement was a live video of Times Square. Into shot now and then walks an attractive young woman (wearing clothing from Forever21, the brand being advertised). The women interact in various ways with the video – such as take a polaroid photo, pick people up and put them in their bag. It is exciting augmented reality (AR) technology. But it was not the first time the same concept had been used … |
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What is stretcher bars
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| A stretcher bar frame is something that is used lot in canvas printing and canvas art frames today. They are used for artists and canvas prints companies all around the world as the stretcher bar give a professional look and also have bevelled edges that give the canvas a tight stretch for a long time. They are also normally shaped like a rectangle or a square which is the beauty of being able to purchase different sizes as you can make any type of frame size you like, i.e. square, panoramic, rectangle.
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