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DECEMBER 7, 2022

In 2005, Primerica’s almost decade-long partnership with Citigroup had reached the point where we just didn’t fit within their environment anymore. I could’ve easily let my mind become overwhelmed with all the difficulties we were having and our uncertain future and spent that Christmas in 2005 too troubled to enjoy the festivities.

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JULY 7, 2021

  This was the second highest number of applications filed since this data was first collected in 2005. Census chart below shows (click to enlarge), 500,219 business applications were filed in May.  The recent surge in applications started last summer in July when a record 551,000 business applications were filed.  

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AUGUST 8, 2024

First recognized in 2005 when the earliest known coworking space opened its doors in San Francisco, this day now stands as a testament to the transformative nature of shared workspaces. Here are five reasons why flexible workspaces and the coworking community are worth celebrating.

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MARCH 27, 2023

HERE View this post on Instagram A post shared by Manas Bhatia (@manasbhatiadesign) At MIT in 2005, architects Mitchell Joachim, Javier Arbona and Lara Greden developed a hypothetical ecological home named Fab Tree Hab. In 2005 an earthquake in Kashmir—one of the most destructive in modern times—killed over 80,000 people and rendered 3.5

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As the chart below (click to enlarge) shows, professional services applications from independent workers (in blue) almost tripled over the past 15 years, growing from 140,365 in 2005 to 419,073 in 2020. Another long-term trend is the shift away from employer business applications and towards applications from independent workers.

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MARCH 2, 2023

In 2005, entrepreneur Brad Neuberg first used the term “coworking” in relation to a shared office environment. It resulted in the establishment of the San Francisco Coworking Space — accessible only on Mondays and Tuesdays within Spiral Muse (a feminist collective located in San Francisco’s Mission district).

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AUGUST 1, 2022

1, 2005, only three days before Foster’s first child was born. “When it was just the three of us, we worked really hard—sometimes 24 hours straight—and did everything ourselves,” he says. “If If your life is on the line to a degree, it’s amazing what you can get done.”. The company was launched on Feb.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

While its print guidebooks and the company itself have evolved, at its height in 2005 the Zagat Survey included 70 cities and reviews from 250,000 diners. In 1983, the Zagats produced 10,000 copies of their self-published survey and distributed them to bookstores. The lesson here? You don’t have to quit your day job at first.

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JULY 13, 2024

Quoting Apple Founder Steve Jobs’ famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech , Jiménez says that “we connect the dots looking backwards” on our lives. But the most likely scenario is that things will not work out as you thought, and that will create confusion, and you need to be ready to understand that that’s also part of the game.”

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Glazer also ran Bobby’s Best, a source for product research and buying tips, which he began as his first solo venture in 2005. So, he employed a similar strategy at Acceleration Partners. It’s hard for Glazer not to think long-term, even in personal matters.

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JUNE 19, 2021

Copyright ©2005 Jack Canfield. Get into the habit now of visualizing your ideal next day the night before. It will make a vast difference in your life. This article is adapted from The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. All rights reserved. Published by HarperCollins. Photo by @WR36/Twenty20.

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JULY 29, 2021

Copyright © 2005 Robert T. This article was originally published in August 2009 and is based on Robert Kiyosaki’s Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Published by Warner Books.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 7, 2019

workforce had declined since 2005.  Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hasn't shown growth in self-employment, second jobs or contingent work. The BLS 2017 Alternative Employment Arrangement Survey results even showed the share of U.S. gig/contract workers in the U.S.   Which gets us to the second paper that caught our eye.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 18, 2019

billion in 2018 and a doubling of 2005’s $36 billion." Key quote: The surge in spending on pets – and explosion of new products, services and unique “experiences” to help quadrupeds and their owners bond more closely – is at an apex, tracking to break U.S. records this year. According to the article, "the U.S.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

In his viral 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University , Jobs told the audience that after he dropped out of Reed College, he slept on the dorm-room floors of his friends, recycled Coke bottles for money, and ate free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. In fact, at various times in his life, Jobs lived in considerable poverty.

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She had just graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a Master of Science in international relations and affairs in 2005. Carving her niche At 23, Bell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, where she learned about vodka production from her host family, who distilled it from potatoes.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Their 2005 wedding was like their proposal—at a distant destination—but this time it was in the tropical location of Bermuda. “We “Just about the time I started to get a little bit nauseous because of this prop plane, another plane comes by us in the opposite direction carrying a banner that says, ‘Marry me, Tonya. I heart you.’”

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The first coworking office was established in 2005 by American programmer Brad Neuberg, after he became “fed up of unsocial business centres and his lack of productivity when working from home.” In fact, outsmarting procrastination is a byproduct of the coworking concept.

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JUNE 28, 2022

She founded her own company, Mally Beauty, in 2005 and wrote a book titled Love, Lashes and Lipstick: My Secrets for a Gorgeous, Happy Life in 2014. Roncal has worked with some of the most recognizable celebrities of our generation, including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and more.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

It wasn’t until 2005, when he was doing a vocational rehab program for the blind in Salt Lake City, that John discovered fine woodworking could be an option. He decided to take the woodworking class they offered, even though “honestly, I thought that was bonkers,” he laughs.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

million in 2005. The average student loan balance is $24,301 , up from $15,651 in 2005.  Student loans exceed both auto loans and credit cards, making student loan debt the largest form of consumer debt after mortgages. million Americans have student loan debt, up from 23.3

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JANUARY 29, 2021

I originally published portions of this article on 08-18-2005. . . Live Fully -- Love Openly -- Laugh Often -- Leverage Your Brilliance -- Connect Authentically -- Get Your Message Out -- Serve with Impact -- Prosper Everyday. The post Tips for Saying “No!”

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 19, 2011

I have been buying my office supplies and equipment at Staples since I opened my business in 2005. I love flashing my rewards card and knowing that soon I will receive a check in the mail. In this age when most of the mail is junk or bills, it is nice to know that occasionally you’ll [.].

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 30, 2018

Workers Report Highest Job Satisfaction Since 2005 on the higher earning job holders: “These are higher-skilled workers, managers, and they tend to have more control over their day-to-day work activities,” said Rebecca Ray, leader of The Conference Board’s human capital practice.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Dale Chiluly, COV “Finland Glass Boat” Nuutajarvi, Finland. In the 1980s, pop artist-sculptor Jeff Koons appeared on the scene, making a big splash with his New Museum window installation The New , which featured vacuum cleaners and other appliances.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Dale Chiluly, COV “Finland Glass Boat” Nuutajarvi, Finland. In the 1980s, pop artist-sculptor Jeff Koons appeared on the scene, making a big splash with his New Museum window installation The New , which featured vacuum cleaners and other appliances.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Months before his death in 2005, he told me that happiness was too big of a word, but that people who were satisfied and contented tended to, as he put it, ‘live in more than one world,’” says Bruce Rosenstein, who published his second Drucker-inspired book, Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way , in 2013.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

It was last done in 2005 and stopped in large part due to a lack of interest in the results - even by labor economists. .  In the forecasting world, we call this a signal. Up until recently, I doubt any mainstream publication had ever written a story about the contingent worker supplement.

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MAY 16, 2022

In 2005, I wanted to start my own firm and asked if he’d like to partner. I worked with my partner since the 1980s at both a big bank and a small business. He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career.

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JULY 21, 2021

During 2005 spring break, when I was a 14-year-old freshman at Jserra Catholic High School in Orange County, California, my best friend Scott and I were riding his dirt bike from my house to his. To say that I’m proud to make the team—and to be representing Team USA in long jump—would be an understatement.

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Make or Break Moments

AUGUST 7, 2010

Here is a blurb from a blog written in 2005 about Treasuring your Customers written by Kirsten Osolind : August 7 marks “Treasure Your Customers Day.&# I first learned about Treasure your Customer Day from Entrepreneur magazine in 2006. But it certainly didn’t start there.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 6, 2014

The study chart below shows mileage driven peaked in 2004/2005 and has declined every year since. , shows that since 2004 Americans have owned fewer cars and light trucks, driven each of those vehicles less and consumed less fuel each year.   A key driver of this shift is demographic.   trends'

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Small Business Labs

MAY 2, 2012

According to a study from Pew Research , between 2005 and 2010 more people moved from the U.S. to Mexico than the other way around.  The chart below is from Pew.       This reverses a long term trend of large numbers of legal and undocumented Mexicans moving to the U.S. are from Mexico.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 26, 2014

According to their website, since 2005 over 700 startups have gone through their program and today these firms have a combined market valuation of over $30 billion. Last week was Demo Day for Y-Combinator's summer batch of startups. Well known grads include Dropbox, Airbnb and Reddit.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 2, 2008

Apparently in 2005 this was made official by the Guinness Book of Records. I just got back from a nice boat trip on the Rideau Canal , which for those who don't know is a scenic waterway that runs through Ottawa and the Valley. In the winter it is the world's longest skating rink.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Then, there were a number of sites created between 2002 and 2005, built on amassed HTML knowledge and reflecting my earliest flirtation with with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), when no one knew if that “new&# approach would catch on or ever be supported by browsers.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2016

We started working with the non-employer data set in 2005 and this led us to our initial point of view that self-employment and what is now called the gig economy (we called this type of work "personal businesses" back then) was bigger and growing much more rapidly   than the official government statistics were showing.

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