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Founders’ Chat: Joe Chang – Turning a hobby into a career

NZ Entrepreneur

Here’s Joe’s advice on how you can do the same. Although these are perfectly good reasons to stay in a position you like, it may leave you feeling less fulfilled than doing something you really enjoy. I spoke to Joe Chang , who left his career in corporate IT after 15 years to pursue what he enjoyed and try his hand at entrepreneurship.

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Edition #5: Carl Sullivan

GCUC

This month we decided to take our interview to Australia to chat with Carl Sullivan of Your Desk, a handful of family owned and operated coworking spaces! This month we decided to take our interview to Australia to chat with Carl Sullivan of Your Desk, a handful of family owned and operated coworking spaces! Check out our past posts.

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7 Resources to Help You Find a Mentor Today

Smart Hustle Magazine

When seeking a mentor, be intentional- look for someone who can offer you valuable, even critical, feedback, advice, and open doors for you to new opportunities to advance your career. Maybe you have a coworker, or someone higher up in your organization, who you admire professionally that you can approach. . Ask Someone You Know.

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction. Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in.

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Edition #6: Jessica Knapp

GCUC

Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. When I’m at home in New Zealand, or when I’m with my Coworking People (and that could be anywhere in the world!!). What is one piece of advice you give everyone that works with and/or for you? Oh, and be nice.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating.