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Clothes Call: The Back Story

Kerry Lynn Spindler, KSpin Design, PrettyPale.org Fashion model, skin cancer survivor, advocate and successful entrepreneur best describe Kerry Lynn Spindler’s story to date.  Kerry Lynn started work as a young fashion model and then went on with her father to found a successful domestic air freight forwarder company.  At the time she was very young [...]

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Clothes Call: The Big Picture and the Quick Take

Kerry Lynn Spindler, KSpin Design, PrettyPale.org Kerry Lynn Spindler created KSpin Design which focuses on age-appropriate, hand-made children’s clothing.  Kerry also founded PrettyPale.org, which helps educate parents and children about the dangers of sun damage. The Quick Take Best Advice:  Value your employees, because your success is based in part on the team you bring [...]

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The Beauty of Blogging : What We Can Learn from Her Side of the Desk

Kirsten Lambertsen, Kuratur  Tactics to Impress Business Accelerator Panels: Build your prototype first; it helps tremendously when making your pitch.  If you are not a coder yourself, have someone on board who can code.  Some accelerator programs don’t require a code because they focus on user experience, but it certainly gives you an edge over [...]

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The Beauty of Blogging: The Back Story

Kirsten Lambertsen, Kuratur Kirsten began her journey in entrepreneurship when the internet was just starting.   At that time she says it was so important to learn coding, to even participate.  Back in 1995, she taught herself HTML, although she was immediately pulled into the business and sales development, so she never quiet learned as much [...]

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The Beauty of Blogging: The Big Picture and the Quick Take

Kirsten Lambertsen, Kuratur  Kirsten Lambertsen brings with her 15 years of experience with internet start-ups.  In 1999, she founded and later sold a virtual beauty makeover website.  She is now the founder of Kuratur.  Kuratur lets anyone transform their favorite social media sources into a beautiful, custom, automated web magazine page in under ten minutes [...]

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Live Saver: What We Can Learn from Her Side of the Desk

Rita Shuford, Ph.D. of Turning Corners Group  Make decisions with a calm, quiet mind:  Stress and tension compromise your mind.  You are a product of your thoughts:  Choose to use the power of mind, thought and consciousness to create a life that is positive, hopeful and peaceful.   Don’t dwell on the past:  Acknowledge the past [...]

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Live Saver: The Back Story

Rita Shuford, Ph.D. of Turning Corners Group Rita and her partners Cam Shuford, Louise Esselstyn and Robie Lovinger joined together to bring their strong belief of innate inner health to those that were wrestling with their own inner demons.  The group wanted to bring workshops, counseling and training programs based on the mind, thought and [...]

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Life Saver: The Big Picture and The Quick Take

The Big Picture Rita Shuford, Ph.D. of Turning Corners Group Rita Shuford is the president and cofounder of Turning Corners Group, a coaching and counseling practice headquartered in Kailua, Hawaii.  The company was founded in 2005 and it centers its work on the principles discovered by Sydney Banks, a noted philosopher and author.  The principles [...]

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The Science of Success: What We Can Learn from His Side of the Desk

Philip Cable of American Science & Surplus Know your customer:  Philip knows which groups of buyers prefer monthly or annual mailings, how recently they ordered and how much they spent and uses that data to keep and grow his customer base. Don’t discount “old” tactics:  The catalog seems to cut through the online clutter and [...]

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The Science of Success: The Back Story

Philip Cable of American Science & Surplus Philip spent his post-college days mapping out neighborhoods to find the best buildings to rehab, he created and ran an indoor mini golf course and had a “science-experiments-for-kids” catalogue business that he, interestingly enough, sold to American Science & Surplus in the late 1990s. After Philip went back [...]

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