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Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.

David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see.

Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

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StackPath is a platform of computing infrastructure and services built at the edge of the cloud. So, if you’re a developer, now you can build and deploy right on the Internet’s front steps. That way users of your app, website, API, content, or whatever else you’re building in the cloud don’t bounce around the world before reaching you, and will have a fast, secure, and seamless experience.

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Otter.ai is a web application which provides speech to text transcription. Otter converts live speaking into a written transcription. A consumer evaluation reported that the app's operators make no promises of privacy. Otter was trained with machine learning on millions of hours of audio recordings.

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ReelCraft is a generative AI platform that lets you create immersive animated story videos from a simple text prompt.

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Teachable is a comprehensive technology solution to let you create and sell online courses from your own website.

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Ranktracker the all-in-one platform for effective SEO. ⚡ Find keywords, track website ranking, analyze SERPs and audit your website using world-class data.

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Remove backgrounds 100% automatically in 5 seconds with zero clicks

There are approximately 20 million more interesting activities than removing backgrounds by hand.

Thanks to remove.bg's clever AI, you can slash editing time - and have more fun!

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Updated annually, the DMV CEO Resource List is a master list of resources in the DC, Maryland & Virginia area.

There are many resources that entrepreneurs and business owners in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia to help and support entrepreneurs and business owners. While we do have events and a directory with local businesses, the DMV is a special place so we decided to create a unique list.

For all aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, who are looking for additional resources on how to grow their ventures and entrepreneurial networks, please review the following list below. There are over 150 resources on this list. 

Please Note: We try to update this list once or twice a year, if you would like the more updated list, check out the directory on this site for members of CBNation Plus.

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Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Send emails with business emails through Outlook. Share them with others and work together at the same time.

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Cover of the book "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business" by Josh Kaufman, featuring an origami crane made of dollar bills, endorsements, and a note of it being a revised and expanded edition.
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The 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling foundational business training manual for ambitious readers, featuring new concepts and mental models: updated, expanded, and revised.


Many people assume they need to attend business school to learn how to build a successful business or advance in their career. That's not true. The vast majority of modern business practice requires little more than common sense, simple arithmetic, and knowledge of a few very important ideas and principles.

The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition provides a clear overview of the essentials of every major business topic: entrepreneurship, product development, marketing, sales, negotiation, accounting, finance, productivity, communication, psychology, leadership, systems design, analysis, and operations management...all in one comprehensive volume.

Inside you'll learn concepts such as:

The 5 Parts of Every Business
: You can understand and improve any business, large or small, by focusing on five fundamental topics.

The 12 Forms of Value
: Products and services are only two of the twelve ways you can create value for your customers.

4 Methods to Increase Revenue
: There are only four ways for a business to bring in more money. Do you know what they are?

Business degrees are often a poor investment, but business skills are always useful, no matter how you acquire them.

The Personal MBA will help you do great work, make good decisions, and take full advantage of your skills, abilities, and available opportunities--no matter what you do (or would like to do) for a living.

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