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Dream Job? No Experience? No Problem!
(Yep, that’s my mug in the white shirt, far left; circa 2004) You want to go into a new career field, but you know nothing about it. Rather than let that be a barrier to entry, having no experience can be your in. Really. No experience in a new field is intimidating, and you may […]
How To Lead Without A Title
Leadership can happen at any level, at any company, in any position. You can be a leader in the copy room or as an intern. Leading isn’t about having a captive following, leading is about the push to make change and to improve. Leading is about passion, about purpose, about impact. You want to be […]
Business Lessons From Reservoir Dogs
Popular culture for ages has told people how to dress, how to talk, how to sing, how to dance, how to hate, and how to love. Most importantly, however, it can also tell us how to succeed in business by observing the way some characters in movies find their own success because in essence, movies […]
About ALEX
Alex Simon is a serial entrepreneur and career hacker who has pulled off some ridiculous stuff in his life.
Referred by the media as a “master at breaking into sexy and exciting careers”, he was a failure as a student who broke out of his funk after running a marathon without any training (not figuratively, he really ran it!). How's that for starting to believe in the impossible?
The self-proclaimed “most impatient man in the world” attributes his need for diversity and cramming as many experiences as he can into his lifetime to being born in Florida, raised in Brazil by a German family speaking Portuguese. Plus, he believes life is too short to be spent “paying our dues” at soul-sucking jobs.
