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How to Save Money on a VOIP Upgrade If you're looking to save money on a VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) upgrade, there are several strategies you can consider. Here are some tips: Assess your needs and goals: Before choosing a VOIP provider and plan, it's important to assess your needs and goals for using VOIP. This will help you determine the features and services you require, which can help you avoid unnecessary costs. . Consider a cloud-based solution: Cloud-based VOIP systems, such as TrueVoIP and Highbridge Communications, offer cost savings by eliminating the need for expensive on-premise hardware and maintenance. These systems allow you to work from anywhere and can save you up to 80% off your current phone bill. . Take advantage of added features: VOIP business phone systems, like those offered by some providers, often come with added features for less than the cost of traditional phone hardware. These features can enhance productivity and efficiency, providing value for your investment. . Scalability: VOIP phone systems are scalable, meaning you can buy only what you need at the moment and avoid costly hardware upgrades when your business grows. This flexibility can save you money in the long run. . Compare providers: It's important to compare different VOIP providers to find the best pricing and service options for your needs. Consider factors such as call quality, customer support, and pricing plans to ensure you're getting the best value. Skip the hassle, contact Midatlantic B2B to get the best prices according to your budget with 0 consultation fees! 😁 Call us today to learn more! Email: [email protected] Direct Line: 469-949-6226 #voip #consulting #freeservice #budget #upgrade

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The actual age of starting a modeling career is between 13-18 years. As you go through the history of modeling, top models have been selected near this age group by scouts. **1\. Model like "Alex Consani" was in her high school when she worked for Versace for the first time at the age of 13.** ## 2\. Model: Kimora Lee-Simmons was eleven years old when her mother admitted her to a modeling agency. At the age of 14 she came to a contract with Chanel. ## 3\. Model: Kate Moss was spotted by founder of storm model management at airport when she was 14 years old. These are a few examples of models who started at a very young age. Now you can also start your career at a very young age, until you become 18 years old, till the time you will be in the minor category of modeling where you will always have a elder one with you to be your companion at every job and help you in legal works. Now how can you finish your school with a modeling career simultaneously? At a level you will compromise some of your school days and even some modeling jobs due to high priority of school days & Modeling jobs, but overall if you can manage both then you will rock both segment in you career and school life. We can say model who are also pursuing studies along with modeling career, manages both 1. They have their special class and extra hours session to study & Manage school work, Especially when they miss their classes or projects. 2. Their weekend remain usually busy, they have to manage up whole school in week days. Weekends are dedicated for shoots only. 3. Some time campaigns are the most challenging thing in their life, specially during important times of school. Campaign jobs are 2-4 days planned shoots where model must present for all days or half days as per the requirements, then missing school can be difficult. If they have exams, then probably they will miss the shoot. 4. As we have seen how it become difficult to manage it regularly, but their fame & fan Following will rise high, when their school mates, class teachers, and entire school will see them on billboards and hoardings outside the school. I can say it surely because in my brothers school this thing happened, when a girl from his section did an advertisement shoot for a cosmetic brand and we can see the huge banner outside the school. For an entire month this was the hot topic in the school. 5\. Rest I can say, their school life is not remain like a normal school teen, who play games and hangout with friends, because they models have free time either they day shoots or practice session or they do any other shoot related work. I think these small points give you basic information about how a school going teen manages a modeling life. If you are interested in modeling programs, then contact us at +91 7042847507 or DM us on social media or on WhatsApp. Check out our website [Retrocolor - A Creative House](https://lnkd.in/gAsZcM3z)

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Fuel issue to the development of the country Around these 5 years the country of Burundi losing in the terms of economy more than it was before added that it is placed among the first poorest countries in the World because of the issue of the fuel in the country. Comparing to other countries in the East African Community, Burundi is scoring in lack of fuel. Anyway, this lack of fuel should be explained at a certain time by several facts as explained many times by the concerned. In the former years, any vehicle was able to make full-tank at any time, at any place but now it is not the case. You should found half-tank in the previous days at least but now it none exists. Now the vehicles are kept at fuel stations waiting for long time and they are pushed by force of men to leave the place without getting getting fuel. SHAMEFUL! Issue resort The issue of lacking fuel does not affect only one sector but all sectors of activities of the country. Jobs are not executed as well, schools are not attended as it would be, and goods are not exported or imported in a good way. In few words, it becomes calamity in all area but the most terrible is the famine in the country because the country now is affected by famine due to this issue. A food from one province to another is now being done nowadays. Provided that all provinces of the country don’t get the same harvest at the same level they could collaborate and exchange and famine should not affect the country. Note that the more suffering one remains the ordinary people. Why do government's vehicle not stop? The community they would serve is perishing. Was this the same case before? Before most of the fuel stations had the access and authority to import the fuel at their capacity and according to the station owner capital. This was so and the businessmen tried all their best and they served the community as well. After pretending that the fuel stations are generating the fuel in the bad condition, the fuel importation has been assigned to the be controlled by the government. Moreover, it has been said that the tax of OBR was not fulfilled by those businessmen. In the explanations given by the concerned, they highlighted the lack of dollars that disturbs the trade system. Anyway, this doesn’t have the solid explanation because they would give opportunity to the businessmen and do the trade themselves by following OBR obligations. Going deep, all the explanations given are not on the favor of resolving the issue. In this issue, they don’t give the value on the free market and this market is controlled by the committee and institutions of the government. This issue will not be over till the government is limited and give access to the business owner themselves. Recently, on 03/01/2024, the government gathered together the Ministers and reorganizes the committee charged on controlling the fuel market. Will this pass and resolve the problem?

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman A buddy turned me on to this book a while back and said if anyone needed to read it, it was me. As with most books I jump into, the timing of Burkeman’s message was perfect. I’d been feeling a strong tug lately to reassess where my priorities stacked up and honestly assess if my time was being appropriately allocated to the endeavors that moved the needle for me. The book’s title is derived from the assumption that if one lives to be 80, they will have about four thousand weeks to live. The author makes the case that despite it being “harder to imagine a crueler arrangement: not only are our four thousand weeks constantly running out, but the fewer we have left, the faster we seem to lose them,” it is liberating because by confronting the certainty of death we can start to become truly present with our lives. Living in the moment has always been a struggle for me. I have always emphasized a future reward instead of basking in the beauty of the now or taking a second to enjoy the accomplishment earned. He also hit me between the eyes by articulating that becoming uber-efficient with our time allows us to take on more things that don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. For example, if you respond to emails at a breakneck pace, the reward is merely more emails (at an even faster cadence). There is no denying that if you want to receive something of significance in the future, you will have to sacrifice in exchange for it today, so the message is not to throw care to the wind and live a life cloaked in hedonism. Rather, it is to find joy in all things, even if they are hard, disappointing, or mundane, because each experience or interaction could be our last. Our problem isn’t limited time but rather how we spend it. The world sells us an image of what it means to be successful or how life is supposed to be lived, but the truth is that those things are different for everyone. “It is impossible to feel as though you are doing well enough. Instead of simply living our lives as they unfold in time, it becomes difficult not to value each moment primarily according to its usefulness for some future goal or some future oasis of relaxation you have to reach once your tasks are finally out of the way.” - Oliver Burkeman In closing, I’d like to leave you with two questions: If you let everything in your life crash to the ground, what pieces would you pick back up? What would it mean to spend the time you have only in a way that makes you feel as though you are making it count? To me, the meaning of life is relationships, experiences, and feeling alive. Every second I spend on one of those equates to a life well lived in my eyes. I want more of that with the weeks I have left. Keep Punching, Nathan Fore more Weekly and Weekend Alignments - subscribe today! https://lnkd.in/e8BuUJfs

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These are the Excel shortcuts we utilize everyday. There are literally hundreds of Excel shortcuts available… but if you learn just these 71, you’ll save a HUGE amount of time Let’s dive in: ➡️ THE EASY ONES These shortcuts are ones you can find in almost any application Ctrl c - copy Ctrl x - cut Ctrl v - paste Ctrl a - select all Ctrl s - save workbook Ctrl n - new workbook Ctrl o - open workbook Ctrl p - print workbook Ctrl f - find Ctrl z - undo Ctrl y - redo Ctrl b - bold Ctrl u - underline Ctrl i - italic ➡️ THE ESSENTIALS These are the ones that will yield massive efficiencies Ctrl arrow - jump to next/last active cell Shift arrow - highlight cells Select row - shift + space Select column - ctrl + space Insert row / column - ctrl + + on numerical keypad Delete row/column - ctrl + - Remove gridlines - alt + w + vg Insert Cut cells - alt + h + i + e Add data validation - alt + a + v + v Freeze panes - alt + w + f + f Autofit cells - alt + h + o + i Create table - ctrl + t Create filter - Alt + H + S + F Change windows - Alt + W + W Group cells - Alt + A + G Ungroup Cells - Alt + A + U Remove Duplicates - Alt + A + M Define name - Alt + M + M Autosum - Alt + = Access dropdown - Alt + ↓ Ctrl + 1 - open cell dialogue box F2 - edit cells F4 - fix references F5 - go to ➡️ BORDERS Borders are a huge part of Excel - and they are really easy to control with your keyboard. Simply hit ALT + H + B and then any of these letters… All - alt + h + b +a None - alt + h + b + n Left - alt + h + b + l Right - alt + h + b + r Top - alt + h + b + p Down - alt + h + b + o Outer edge - alt + h + b +s Change color - alt + h + b + i ➡️ PASTE SPECIAL Pasting is as big part in Excel - but there’s so much more than just pasting with CTRL V. To access these, simply hit ALT + H + V and any of these letters Format - alt + h + v + r Values - alt + h + v + v Transpose - alt + h + v + t Picture - alt - h + v + u Formula - alt + h + v + f ➡️ CELL FORMATTING Need to edit the way one of your cells look? These shortcuts have got you covered Change font color - alt + h + f + c Change background color - alt + h + h Merge and center - alt + h + m + c Wrap text - alt + h + w Indent - alt + h + 6 Decrease indent - alt + h + 5 Make bigger - alt + h + fg Make smaller - alt + h + fk === We couldn’t list all 71 shortcuts due to the character limit… but you can view all of them in the graphic. Which one is your favorite shortcut? and did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below 👇 PS: Looking for help in closing your books each month? We can help you with that, and so much more. Learn more over here: https://bit.ly/47dbyWR

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People ask how they can support Wonder Women Tech (and other initiatives like ours.) The truth? Many of us are barely holding on. Some of us are here because of sheer will and the work and support of a team of volunteers and an Advisory Board that roll up their sleeves and help strategize and pool together resources. That's us. For the most part though, our industries (DEIB & women led initiatives) have been attacked, defunded, and devalued. I am going to talk about the elephant in the room because it's now or never. You say you care about women, or people of color, or LGBTQ+, or disabled or neurodiverse humans, but you remain silent when it comes to the leaders and groups who are at the frontlines championing this work, risking their livelihood for equity and human rights. How often do you think about those at the frontlines of impact? How often do you reflect on what they go through on a daily basis to be seen and heard and then valued and supported? Why do they keep going? We are often met with "thank you" and told how commendable our work is, and even to "keep going" but are not always supported in the sustainable ways that matter to our survival. Last night I was talking to a group of women in tech and entertainment who have all heard of WWT, (but hadn't yet attended and will attend the Wonder Tech Fest in Jan,) and they were shocked at what I shared vulnerably with them. How much work I do behind the scenes and what looks like a massive team of humans is actually--not. Their eyes were so wide, I started laughing. Later, I started crying. I will tell you why. For over a decade I've been out here tilling the soil. I root myself in excellence so our marketing materials look amazing, our brands are solid, and I go the extra mile in personal communication. I don't love mass communication so your girl is out here emailing personally thousands of humans a month. I work hard and rarely make the funds I need beyond what it takes to make an event happen. I make just enough to pull off an event and I fight to survive the rest of the time. People say keep going, but won't pay for a ticket to the conference, (even at a discount) but will happily accept the free offers I provide. I give away tables to support entrepreneurs and artists for free every year. More than half our tickets are given as scholarships for the last ten years. How can you save us? Buy a ticket to our events like you do for Taylor Swift concerts. Grab an exhibitor booth. Sponsor! Build an activation. Donate your cup of coffee money for the day. SHOW UP! I saw the pleas Girls In Tech and Women Who Code were making months and weeks before they announced their closure. I've made those same pleas the last three years to silence. We are out here dying. Don't just placate with words and "how can this happen?" Support those of us still standing. While we are still here. Thank you. Lisa Mae Brunson https://lnkd.in/geCifrn3

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Map out your niche, offers, and pricing 🗺️ It's time to wake up motivated and inspired instead of just going through the motions. ✅ You can find joy and success on your terms and still do meaningful work, and I'd love to help you make it happen. ​✅ You can have the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere, doing what you do best. After over a decade of establishing best practices for remote work​ to improve your quality of (work) life​, I am excited to share my expertise with you. I will help you reimagine and redesign work so that you can take full advantage of the possibilities and opportunities that an agile work model provides. Whether you're starting or scaling a business or looking to maximize your remote team's productivity, we will set clear goals and develop a plan to achieve them. Together, we'll define your goal, determine the best steps to achieve it, and rinse and repeat until you (and your team, if you have one) feel accomplished and are ready to knock out the next challenge. I'm offering weekly and biweekly coaching packages to fit your schedule and provide a comfortable amount of strategy and support that fits your schedule. ✅ Clients who select weekly sessions value regular sessions without long gaps between meetings. ✅ Clients who prefer biweekly meetings still want frequent, ongoing strategies and more time between meetings to implement and take action. ​All of my coaching clients benefit from ​using my signature -ATE Method. You will focus on what you do best, automate, delegate, and eliminate the rest until you find a balance of priorities that brings you results and joy. ​Over the next few days, I'll share some examples of results that my clients have seen, testimonials, and how you can reimagine work to improve your quality of life at work and home. Almost every client at some point questions their rates and offers. They wonder, "Am I charging enough?" "Do my services make sense and appeal to my ideal clients?" "Am I focused on the right niche? I've helped numerous clients map out their niche, offers, and pricing to ensure they are focused on their zone of genius, doing work that maximizes their time, income, impact, and joy! I have worked with them to set their fees to achieve their desired income, ensuring that the time it takes to serve their clients and work on their business is accounted for to use their time wisely. It's common to find that you want to achieve 10k months working 30 hours/week, but when you look at your rates, you're severely undercharging unless you want to work 70-hour weeks to achieve your goal. It's common to find that you want to serve a particular industry, but your offers do not speak the language that attracts your ideal clients. It's also common to need someone to help you recognize your genius zone because you are multi-passionate and have a lot of interests, talents, and experience pulling you in many directions. Feel free to reach out for help sorting out your

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Some interesting thoughts on how law firms view the potential for time savings using Gen AI #lawfirms #efficiency #productivity #Genai #lawfirmprofitability

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GET TO KNOW – Simon 😀 (Multi-Franchise owner of 3 Noodle Box Restaurants) When did you start with Noodle Box? I started with a Wokinabox restaurant in Armadale in 2010 & purchased a second store in Canning Vale. Now I own 3 stores – Noodle Box Canning Vale, Noodle Box Osborne Park, & Noodle Box Palmyra. How did you know you were ready to purchase your second store? Katie, our Growth Support Manager at the time, recognised I was ready and proposed a second store. I felt the timing was right. Was it difficult going from 1/2/3 stores? What support did you receive from Noodle Box? I found having 1 store quite easy to manage, & the transition to 2 stores more difficult as it required more management. I had to hire the right staff & ensure the right people were in my business. Owning my 3rd restaurant was easier as I had a formula in place. Our Growth Support Manager is Sunny, & we are very lucky. She is supportive in all aspects of the business and goes above & beyond. If there are any sales, operations, or even IT issues, Sunny is always there to offer her assistance. Concept Eight is also very supportive, & whilst I am busy running my business, I know that behind the scenes, they are marketing my business on various platforms from delivery,social media to any local area marketing. The innovation from the Ate Rewards app is also helping drive sales. You now operate 3 stores, what does your team setup look like? I have 3 excellent Managers who oversee my 3 restaurants & are immensely helpful and important to my business. I am very hands-on, I visit 2 stores a day to check food quality and stock levels. My wife is also working in the business with me & we have a great partnership. Over the years, you have traditionally bought Noodle Box restaurants with average sales and transformed these into high sales/high-profit restaurants. What is your secret? The secret is experience! Learned over the years of running restaurants, I attribute my success to focusing on maintaining food quality and ensuring this is always at a high standard. I hire chefs and cooks and train them personally on how to cook the Noodle Box menu following our standard operating procedures. Consistency is key! We also ensure that we offer a good training period for our staff, which is important. I currently have approximately 40-50 people working in my restaurants. Our customer is a big focus; we want to make sure that their experience is positive. Our virtual brands have also contributed to our sales. By offering multiple brands under one roof, we cater to all tastes, which has increased sales. What do you love about owning Noodle Box stores? Noodle Box is the number 1 brand for noodles. It offers a big team with great operational support. Why do you think customers love the brand? Great noodles, fresh ingredients, and lots of variety. What is your favorite Noodle Box dish? I love fried rice! I am loving the latest Limited Time Only Fried Rice range. 🍜

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Last night we performed the last service for a client. And it was our choice. Why? So we didn’t become a Victim of our own Story. Or to be clearer - to suddenly begin to suffer as a result of something or someone bad. Here is what happened: A client we have been delivering a daily cleaning service for five years decided to do a review. Of course we all review things from time to time, but it was the decision that made us withdraw our services. The client, well, actually, the Sydney based Procurement Department, decided after the review that the site in question only needed to be serviced three days a week. Again it is the clients choice here, however from the cleaning needs we know the site has, we could not see how this would work. We saw that the staff onsite, after being used to five full services would get upset at the lack of cleaning and, as we have seen in the past, blame us for the drop in service. They would forget that is was their decision to reduce the cleaning frequency and this would leave us being a “Victim of our own Story.” Why? We strongly believe that after 30 years of running a cleaning business, and one of our founders having close to 40 years experience in the industry, that we need to stand by what we believe a site needs as far as cleaning goes. Yes, a client can choose a frequency or what to clean or not, but we can choose to say “yes or no”. In this case we could see that no-one at the site will be happy. Yes, Procurement may be happy after all they have done what is expected of them, reduce the cost, but the team at the site, after being so used to a great daily service, will be totally dissatisfied. So why would we be a victim of our own story? We have and are working on educating our current and potential clients on what good cleaning looks like and for us to participate in agreeing to supplying a cleaning service that would be second rate at best, would be totally against the way of us doing business, in other words our story. And going against what we are talking about and educating about, would make us just one of the bad cleaning companies we talk about - so delivering bad cleaning or insufficient cleaning, will make us just as bad - begin to suffer as a result of something or someone bad. Again, I will say, that it is totally up to the client on what they decide to have as far as a cleaning service goes, but it is also up to us, as a team, to say NO, especially if we see what is being asked to not be possible to deliver. Oh, and to ask a cleaner to clean as site like this three days a week is just degrading to them, but more on that in a post next week. And lastly this site is a NDIS supplier, an organisation that is there to service and support people but does not see that a clean site everyday, is supporting thier team. #cleaning #commercialcleaning #NDIS #procurement #makesnosense

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“Design is what brings clarity to the Fog of Life”   Design Philosophy & Practicing a Science of Discontent   Designers design, because they are NOT happy with what they see around themselves. Always unsatisfied with what the graphic design world has to offer, they set off to "do a better design job of it". Or they wish they could have designed a better product / commercial / brochure…   They would all like to be as good a designer as that famous guy that designed the doorway with the rotating knives.   Graphic Design is Art in Use. Design is a term that is both a noun and a verb. When it is being used with knowledge. Unfortunately, it has more lately become to be used as an "opinion" . . . and, with the advent of the desk top computer, a cottage industry infested with charlatans. So what you get is Cottage Industry Cheese - a tasteless mish-mash of hope that the computer will generate the idea.   I wonder. . . What supports this concept?   Design is an Art People Use in Living Life Fortunately, with a more discerning consumer at large - design has become ubiquitous . . . noticeable by its absence . . . sought after. After all - no one SEES Good Design. Yet, Bad Design is IMMEDIATELY recognizable. "You are only as good a designer as your last job", is the refrain. Unfortunately, design has more lately become used as an “opinion”. As if “design” the word, can actually have as much meaning as “DESIGN” the embodied concept. Design is about the interpretation of dreams into reality. The realization of an idea – that coalesces into a solid form, here on the showroom. Design is about selling dreams. Design is seduction. Sadly, much of the "design" we are faced with today is the representation of the limits of the computer operator's understanding of the program/s she/he is using, rather than the ability to actually produce "better design". They cannot, all of them, be called artists because, without the computer, they couldn't "design". They have never tackled the task with pencil and paper. And nor could they - if asked to. This observation is not about simple stuff like labels, flyers, brochures. It is about dealing with real things which are going to be “caused to exist” in an environment and carry with them the sense of purpose and identity, of a time and place and "being". So when you hear people denigrating the design industry or the design fraternity – hasten to point out that without design they would still be unwashed and carrying a big stick, hungry and very likely, on their way from a hovel of a cave, to a miserable or grisly demise.   What? It's going to happen anyway? Well at least you can do it with style, flair, panache… dying with dignity.   Design is what influences your life all the way between your first brightly colored play blocks and the fancy, polished limousine which takes you on your last parade to Eternity. This has been a LinkedIn Test Article.

Living With Metastatic Cancer: How Do You Do It? Martha Carlson says, "I’m approaching 10 years with stage 4 breast cancer, and this question tops the “most asked” list. “How do you do it?” The short story: I do it the same way we all do things, by waking up and getting to it. The fact is that people living with metastatic cancer don’t have a choice other than Just. Do. It. If we stop, we aren’t likely to be here much longer and, frankly, even when we do everything in our power, we may not be here as long as we’d imagined. I have spent the last nearly 10 years of my life living with the sword of Damocles hanging overhead, coming closer but not quite fatally nicking me. Between blood tests, scans, EKGs, an unending supply of doctor appointments, and, of course, treatment every three weeks, the sword sometimes feels more like a piece of paper attempting to take me down through paper cuts. I am one of the fortunate few whose metastatic cancer has been brought under control by drugs and genetics. But that sword doesn’t vanish. My “secrets” are no secret. I do the things that we know are helpful but that can be hard to maintain over time: Acknowledging living with cancer and all it entails is a bad hand to draw at any age. Basically, it stinks, but then I move on. Accept that I am doing my best and refuse to blame myself for things that are out of my control or for making choices that make me happy as a person, even when my healthcare team might prefer something different. Don’t keep it inside for long. Much to the occasional dismay of the people closest to me, I have learned to “feel what I feel” and own it. Try to schedule unpleasantness as much as possible. For me, this can mean squeezing in multiple appointments in one day or one week so that the rest of the month can be mostly free of cancer stuff. This might not be your way! Maybe you like to spread it out. The point is to try to make the schedule work for you. Schedule pleasantness, too. I actively look for flights to my family and friends well ahead of time; I talk to my husband about nearby places that might be interesting and make plans to go; I sign up for workshops and classes that interest and challenge me. I maintain that I am here and capable even when—and this is key—I am sad, anxious or scared. In keeping with the “I feel what I feel” mantra that keeps me going, I have learned to accept that we feel more than one thing at once. The idea is that we need to live in “both/and” spaces rather than “either/or.”It’s why I and others get up in arms when we are told to “be grateful,” as though we can’t feel gratitude alongside sorrow. Make friends who lift you up, make you laugh, who like you for who you are, and bring you along on their adventures. To all those who have lived this cancer-life with me in this giving and honest way, I send all my love. Call the CyberKnife Center of Miami "The Beam of Life" at 305-279-2900 & read our blog now. #cancertreatmentmiami https://lnkd.in/gYP_dXDa

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"Today we are at the end of a very exciting MVP raising over 900.000 EUR in less than 2 months from over 70 investors. We saw that it works, and indeed we didn’t only make a quantum leap as a company but we learned 2 major things." Follow our CEO, Nimrod Malinas and read more about his journey to get here. #Robonnement #SuccessfulStartup #DemocratizingRobots #RobotSubscriptionModelPioneers

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This month, toth shop is talking about the special middle path that exists between athleticism and business. Former collegiate swimmer (and my fellow Kenyon College alum), Adrienne Amador Oddi brings her passion for endurance and teamwork to her role as VP of Strategic Enrollment & Communications at Queens University of Charlotte. toth shop (ts): Over the course of your life, what's your relationship with athletics, sport, "training"? Adrienne Amador Oddi (AAO): "I’ve always always loved the water, and when I discovered swimming, I was hooked. I started swimming longer events at an early age and haven’t stopped. As an adult, I am at my best when I incorporate exercising and training into my life. The common thread is some sort of endurance-related movement – distance running, distance cycling, and distance swimming." ts: In the scheme of your work, how does an athletic mindset present itself? AAO: "A big lesson is the importance of team in individual & collective success. Swimming can seem like an individual sport to an outsider, but there are so many people involved in any one person’s success. It’s way more fun to celebrate wins with others and a lot more forgiving to move through the losses with a team. That’s why building a positive team culture is really important to me. Another thing is that the mind is an incredibly powerful force. Much of my success in the pool came from a combination of putting in the many, many hours of training coupled with deciding something was going to go well." ts: What's a good story of how you used your athletic approach to power through your professional world? AAO: "When I started at Queens, I experienced a significant amount of turnover. It was a challenging period. At one point, the VP for Strategic Enrollment and Communications + the director of admissions + the director of financial aid + the AVP of marketing and communications which is a lot of hats. The team was enthusiastic and, understandably, overwhelmed. There’s no way I would have gotten through that time without several folks on the team stepping up to help me. It was during that period where I was reminded of a crazy idea my coach and I had in college. I was in a rut, competitively. My training was going well. but my racing wasn’t. We decided that I would swim every event in our upcoming dual meet to disrupt my competitive systems. This meant I would only have a few minutes of rest in between races. It was an incredibly rewarding experience that was exactly what I needed. I liked it so much that I did the same thing at the same meet a year later. While it was challenging to wear so many professional hats at once, especially as a new community member, the opportunity allowed me to learn a lot more about my teams, our work, and people just like swimming all of the events in one swim meet allowed me to learn about different races & ways to approach them, and the importance of teammates cheering you on at the end of the day."

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