5 Mantras That Will Help You Take Better Photos

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What’s the best way to improve your photos? In my experience, I’ve found that improving my photographs begins with a good frame of mind and a set of philosophies.

The ease with which we can take photos nowadays may make some people believe that it’s easy to produce a good photo. Or that it’s easy to be a good photographer.

But most of us who have tried to emulate the photos we see in magazines and galleries have discovered the sobering fact that taking a good photo is a lot harder than it seems.

For novice photographers, perhaps even more disappointing is that they quickly realize that their expensive DSLR camera — although infused with extraterrestrial technology and blessed by the high elves of Rivendell — is not going to guarantee great photos...

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Build A Billion-Dollar Internet Company

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There are not very many billion-dollar consumer Internet companies in the U.S.

Greylock Partners VC James Slavet recently dove head-first into the data, and found that there are only 24 publicly traded consumer Internet companies worth $1 billion or more in the U.S.

Of those 24 companies, two-thirds of them are digital transaction firms, including Priceline, Expedia, Groupon, Amazon, eBay, and Netflix.

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10 Lessons on Leadership - with Shareable Poster

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Leadership is a lifelong learning process. Every great leader always looks for ways to improve. No one ever wakes up and says, “I know everything there is to know about leadership. I’m a perfect leader.”

Leadership can be especially challenging for entrepreneurs. Balancing the need to run a business (i.e., products, investors, customers, etc.) and the need to lead company personnel is quite a task.

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Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder

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Reid Hoffman started his professional life with the intention of becoming an academic.

But then he realized: "in order to be a professional scholar, you have to dedicate a vast majority of your career to writing esoteric books that only 50 people will understand."

So instead, he got into the technology industry with a job at Apple, where he helped build eWorld, Apple's version of America Online.

Next, he started a company called SocialNet. It failed.

A friend of Hoffman's, Peter Thiel, recruited him to join a startup, PayPal. It sold to eBay in 2002.

Then Hoffman went on a long trip to Australia. There, he decided to create an Internet company.

It's still around.

It's LinkedIn.

Today, it's worth $19 billion – and Hoffman is its biggest shareholder.

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Wisdom and Quotes to Keep Entrepreneurs Inspired

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Entrepreneurship is packed with risks and even untouched territory. Making mistakes and hitting a few booby traps is a common theme for the brave men/women who take this path in life. Creating a new company and trying fresh ideas to disrupt a specific market is obviously not easy. Startupvitamins provides wisdom packed quotes and tips to keep your startup inspired.

Many people have ideas, but only a few get off their butts and start doing something. The true entrepreneurs are doers, not dreamers. They are the ones who realize that ”If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help you build theirs.” This awesome quote was said by Tony Gaskins. As soon as you read it, you view the business environment with a unique angle. Nobody is perfect, and everybody makes mistakes. The following quotes will help you get through bad days. Every single poster is available for purchase on Startupvitamins.com. Enjoy!

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27 Executives Share The Advice That Made Them Successful

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In her upcoming book, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg talks about the invaluable mentors who have helped her succeed — including Larry Summers, Mark Zuckerberg, and others.

We can all learn something from those around us, no matter how vastly different their worldview, if we're open to it. That's how the world's most successful people got to where they are today.

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Famous Authors Share Their Wisdom About Writing

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New York-based graphic designer Chris Ritter has accumulated a series of quotes imparting advice about writing from some of the most famous authors throughout history, superimposing the wise words over the respective writer's portrait. From classic fiction author Ernest Hemingway and Gothic poet Edgar Allen Poe to horror fiction novelist Stephen King and satirical science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut, the quotes offer a wide of range of advice as well as insight into each author's brand of writing.

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Wisdom From Apple's New CEO

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Much wisdom about Apple's inner workings—and life in general—can be gleamed from interviews with Steve Jobs. His Stanford commencement address, in particular, is one the most highly watched inspirational speeches on YouTube, trailing only Al Pacino and President Obama.

In light of recent news, much media attention has now shifted from Jobs to his successor Tim Cook. Consensus is that Apple is in good hands, but that Cook is no Steve Jobs—in particular when it comes to creative vision, personal gravitas and negotiating chutzpah.

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