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Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge Update: Progress Through Adversity

It’s been just over a month since the Samurai Alexa Ranking Challenge was announced, and I’m pleased to report we’ve made tremendous progress! With 35+ members strong, we are actively helping each other achieve our respective goals. I’d like to use this opportunity to recognize several Yakezie members for their achievements and initiatives in helping the […]

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Creating Powerful Friends: Samurai’s Alexa Ranking Challenge

There’s a fun hypothesis saying that you are the average of the closest five people around you. I believe this to be true, do you? In my efforts to grow this blog, I’ve launched the Samurai’s Alexa ranking challenge. Get all the details below. What’s interesting about the blogosphere community is that anybody with enough

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The Samurai Mask: An Interview With The CEO of BULLDOG Gin

I’m pleased to highlight a new series of articles focused on understanding the thoughts of successful entrepreneurs. For our inaugural series, entitled, “The Samurai Mask,” I speak with the CEO and Founder of BULLDOG Gin, Mr. Anshuman Vohra, 31. “Shu” was once a JP Morgan Banker who gave up his lucrative career to start BULLDOG

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You’re Rich And I’m Rich, OK! You’re Still Rich And I’m Not As Rich, Not OK!

If everybody is rich, it’s OK. But if someone else is rich, it’s not OK. Let me explain. One of the points I write in “Party Like It’s 1999 – 10 Takeaways From This Recession” is that people have short memories. Back in the first quarter of 2009, there was massive populist outrage over Wall St.

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Family Gets Award For Paying Off Debt & Jumps Right Back In!

Paying off debt should be straight forward. Yet so many people fail to pay off their debts? If you go $106,000 into personal debt, and pay it off in 5 years, you apparently get the Professional Achievement and Counseling Excellence (PACE) 2009 Graduate Client of the Year Award. I was hoping for a longer award name,

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Mea Culpa – I Just Spent $1,450 At The Apple Store

Despite making a promise on August 31st to buy nothing this September, I broke down and went to the Apple Store. I bought a 13-inch Apple Macbook Pro yesterday.  You see, I was tempted by two things. 1) The Apple Store’s promotion of getting a free $230 i-Touch with every notebook purchase, and 2) Steve Jobs is

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