Kohlmayer Lutter Knapp Office for Systemic Design is a design agency based in Vienna, Austria. Following a post-structuralistic point of view, their credo is the creation of systems, not buildings. Each of their approaches into the fields of urbanism, architecture, and design consider a wide range of aesthetic, social, economic,…
[quote style=”boxed”]Work. Work smart, but work hard![/quote] Arya Bina is an 18-year-old college student and businessman who was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. He was born to upper middle-class parents, one of which is a second-generation Iranian-American. He started his own company at…
[quote style=”boxed”]When I have an idea that I am passionate about and believe can make this world a better place, I relentlessly work towards making it a reality.[/quote] Erin is an award-winning storyteller. Her production and outreach experience ranges from ABC and CNN to the Peace Corps and non-profits around…
[quote style=”boxed”]There is a huge opening in the South American peanut butter market. If you distribute Skippy down here, you will not only turn a huge profit from the ex-pat community, but you will also be a culinary hero.[/quote] For their honeymoon, newlyweds Anne and Mike Howard decided that one…
[quote style=”boxed”]Engage with your customers or readers very actively and take their feedback seriously. Give way more than you expect back and people will support you.[/quote] Benny Lewis is a vegetarian from Cavan Ireland, who doesn’t drink. He likes to describe himself as a “technomad” – a full-time technology-enabled globe-trotter….
[quote style=”boxed”]With an enormous canvas. I’m a visual thinker, so most of the things we discuss start on a whiteboard, a big table or an enormous sheet of paper.[/quote] Steve Davis is the COO & co-founder of CruiseWise, the web’s most advanced source of cruise knowledge. Cruises are America’s last…
[quote style=”boxed”]Get married and have children earlier![/quote] Karl Schwärzler was born in 1961 in Austria. He shares his passion for events and being a host with his parents, who run hotels in Austria and Liechtenstein. After managing hotels in Canada, Switzerland and Austria, Karl decided to move to Vienna to…
[quote style=”boxed”]Find something you love to do, and find out how you can make money doing it. What we’ve learned is the ideas we’re passionate about, tend to make more money because we’re into it![/quote] Robert and Kimberly Murgatroyd have always shared an insane passion for boutique travel. Early in…
Meet Robert and Kimberly Murgatroyd – Co-Founders of Jet Set Life
[quote style=”boxed”]Default to action. Stop thinking and start doing. Everyone screws up; the people that make the most progress are the ones who aren’t scared to make mistakes. You have to embrace failures, learn from them, brush them off and keep moving. That’s one thing I’m working on. In some…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would have started working on this idea 10 years ago and been a decade into it! I also would have delegated a bit more of the task-oriented work that was time intensive but did not require my personal oversight. Doing it ALL myself diverted my energies from the…