06 Feb 2020
Business is not a battle to be waged. It’s a puzzle to be solved.
~Sam Zell
Sam Zell is a Chicago-based investor in real estate and troubled assets. He is known for successful business turnarounds and his direct style of communicating. Sometimes he ends his verbal messages with a question: “Am I being too subtle?”
Hence the title for his autobiography. Sam has an embedded sense of urgency.
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03 Feb 2020
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
~Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs posed the above question to an executive at Pepsi while recruiting him to join Apple. That was in the 1980s. Apple’s history is well known.
Bridgetown Partners is hiring a Community Manager (CM) to help with the growth of our events and publications. This is a part-time, independent contractor position, mostly remote, with some on-site work (in Los Angeles) for meetings and events. The position could evolve into full-time depending on the growth of the community and the performance of the CM.
Every member of the Bridgetown Partners team is helping to improve the world. The CM will be one of the drivers of improvement.
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27 Jan 2020
One reason to attend conferences: To discover trends while we still have time to be on the cutting edge. Over 400 trend-spotters gathered in downtown Los Angeles for this weekend’s Intelligent Investors Real Estate Conference. This post offers a snap-shot of the event.
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28 Dec 2019
Interesting offer, received via email today. Google is offering a “free” Google Home Mini to users of the Spotify music service. All you have to do is connect your Spotify account to your Google account. And then Google will send you a free listening device equipped with voice recognition and artificial intelligence.
A free listening device for the home.
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04 Nov 2019
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir [the] blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
~Daniel Burnham
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