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Blogging the Stories of India’s Handicrafts: How Jaypore.com Promotes Its Brand
The blog of online store Jaypore.com tells the stories behind their products and celebrates the artisan communities of India.
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“China is not a scary place. It is many things, but scary is not one of them. If you are interested in doing business in China, just go…. Like entrepreneurship—and maneuvering through Chinese street traffic—it is a lot scarier to contemplate than to do.”
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Jason Mayden on The Rise of the Cultural Alchemist™
“Contextually educated, multi-racial, methodically creative, socially aware, culturally blended, and technologically proficient”: Jason Mayden shares his vision for the creators of the future.
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“If you are making a work of art in any area of life, you are not going from a known point A to a known point B. You are inventing point B.”
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Consumerist
Consumerist, part of the Consumer Reports family, is a nonprofit publication where you can find stories and news on products, the companies who make them, and the people who buy them.
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Internet Killed the Fashion Show Star
Fashion houses spend exorbitant amounts of money on one-time shows to display clothing that few people can afford to purchase and won’t be available for months — and that will immediately be copied by “fast fashion” stores. Is the runway show in decline?
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Writers on Freelancing: Roundtables, Tips, and More
A roundup of resources on the realities of freelance writing.
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The CEO Who’s Reinventing J.C. Penney
In this longread at Fortune, Phil Wahba profiles Marvin Ellison, the CEO of department store J.C. Penney.
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Amazon Invades India
At Fortune magazine, Vivienne Walt offers an inside story on how Jeff Bezos aims to conquer the next “trillion-dollar market.”
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Late Blooming Entrepreneurs
A blog by Lynne Strang about making it big in business after age 40.
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A Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered
David Lowery responds to an NPR intern who acknowledged that while she had 11,000 songs in her music library, she’s only paid for 15 CDs in her life: “I just want to illustrate that ‘small’ personal decisions have very real consequences…”
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In Tepid Defense of the Man Who Threatened to Sue a Chinese Restaurant Over $4
Writes Nathan J. Robinson at The Navel Observatory: “Edelman was a prick, but he was not petty or selfish.”
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The Art Of Agenting
“I think there’s this idea that if you receive a big advance and then the book doesn’t work, it’s a disaster, and your career is ruined. That’s just not true.” At Guernica, Jonathan Lee interviews literary agent Chris Parris-Lamb.
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