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It is interesting to me how age and perspective that comes with it shapes my view of Life, Careers and Entrepreneurship. Please share your feedback with me on the few slides and diagrams that I hope are helpful to friends who may read this post.  

In my twenties I had a narrow view of each when it would have benefited me most to have had a broad view. My first job in the furniture business I worked in was really not about furniture, but about learning about the scope and complexity of operating a manufacturing business.  I learned about the value and limits of branding (Sealy) and the value of distribution and credit.  To this day, I still think that for many retail businesses the reality is you can sell anything you can finance.  

In my thirties, I broadened my view and consider how to apply my knowledge, relationship and insights to learned adjacent markets.  I moved from affinity marketing of credit cards to building College Publisher - the leading technology platform for college and university newspapers and to building a pioneering affinity student lending business.