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Litographs

PR for People Team
October 26, 2015

A true business success story, brothers Danny and Corey Fein’s Litographs (www.litographs.com) is a great example of how Kickstarter, a website where anyone can create a proposed project and ask for public funding, are making dreams into reality. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fein’s original idea was simple: designing prints of famous literature by using the...

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Health
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American Brand in Living Color

PR for People Team
October 26, 2015

Alexander Shor DMD MSD Alexander Shor remembers not having a lot of stuff when he was growing up in Latvia.  His world was monochromatic. Most of his books were in black and white. Having books with color photos was a great luxury.  His favorite book was a cook book collection of eastern European, Russian and Latvian recipes.  He loved the recipes for shish kebobs, borsht, and Chicken Kiev, but it was the stylized color...

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Tech
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Spotlight on Brent Brookler and Flowboard.com

PR for People Team
October 22, 2015

Brent Brookler, CEO/Founder of Flowboard is the quintessential entrepreneur in all things mobile. Product-driven and technology focused, Brent is passionate about startup culture and has been in the mobile space for over a decade. In 2000, he started Mobliss, a mobile game developer that powered the American Idol text voting program, and built early mobile games of Family Feud, NY Times Crossword and many others. Mobliss was sold to Index...

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Small Business
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Norma Jean Gaynor Entrepreneur at 83

PR for People Team
October 22, 2015

Norma Jean Gaynor: First Professional Inn Sitter

Norma Jean Gaynor, almost 83, is often called Marilyn by her elderly friends to playfully make the association with movie star Marilyn Monroe whose real name was Norma Jean Baker.  Our Norma Jean worked for the phone company for 27 years and retired with a pension.

“I loved retirement,” Norma Jean said. “Retirement allowed me the spontaneity to seize...

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Business
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Pitch Well, Win Big

PR for People Team
October 21, 2015

Every business needs Terry Ward! He has over 30 years of experience in communication skills training, and is the founder and president of a national communication and presentation skill straining organization. The Comm Skills Group offers a fun, vital and creative training process for business professionals to develop a powerful “State of Mind” so they can master their own natural strengths as communicators.  Clients include: Disney, Mattel...

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Startups
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The Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Dean Landsman
October 21, 2015

The “Entrepreneurial Mindset” is a book title, the subject of a few websites and management courses, and a topic that has spawned an uncountable number of talks. To say the least, the “Entrepreneurial Mindset” has established its place in the modern vernacular.

Look up “Entrepreneurial Mindset” in Wikipedia and it redirects to “Entrepreneurship.”  The keys to entrepreneurship,...

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Books
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Paul Dorset on Authors

PR for People Team
October 20, 2015

Paul Dorset was born in Poole, Dorset, England, but has been living in America since1995. He has been writing for many years and some of his early works were published inteen advice columns. He has also had many technical articles published, mostly oncomputing. Paul has traveled extensively but currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, and has workedmany times with teens and youth groups. This background, combined with a vividimagination,...

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Tech
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Disappearing Artifacts

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Dean Landsman
October 19, 2015

On a recent stroll in NYC, I walked by an apartment house and could see into a stranger’s window, where I saw records (vinyl LPs) and books.  Since I recognized the books and the recording artists, it gave me a glimpse into this person’s life: age, tastes, and even probable religion.

There was a time when I could get a sense of someone (or a couple, a family or business)...

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