AFEUSA News And Current Headlines
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Happy New Year! A message from AFE President Charles Jackson
We hope that you enjoyed this past Holiday Season with your family and friends! As we enter into a new year, we should all take just a moment to refresh our outlook and perspective on our personal and business goals. With the economy moving forward, employment figures at their best in decades and with many Americans enjoying added growth in their savings and retirement accounts, let’s use this momentum to continue our successes into 2019!
News From the President 12/2018
Hello fellow entrepreneurs! So many exciting things planned for 2019, but let's first cover some of the events as we wind down in 2018. I attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners conference in San Francisco this past month. So much is being...
Entrepreneurs Now Outnumber Full-time Employees In U.S.
Entrepreneurs in the U.S. are a force to be reckoned with. The spirit of entrepreneurship has always been the backbone of America, and now we’ve got numbers to prove it. In 2014, the IRS reported that over 91,102,788 individuals receive non-employee...
10 African Online Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017
Njeri Rionge Image credit: Njeri Rionge | Youtube Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » In almost any discussion of business leaders, a lack of diversity prevails. Ask someone to list 10...
Radical Inclusion: How Burning Man is Helping Create a New Breed of Entrepreneur
Image credit: John Horsley | Photoshot | Getty Images Each entrepreneur’s journey is bound to be unique, yet there’s a disturbingly common thread of disassociation and loneliness. Stepping outside of what is available, accessible and seemingly stable to forge into the...
Palmer Luckey's Next Venture Could Build Trump's Wall
Image credit: via PC Mag Palmer Luckey's name will always be associated with virtual reality, his $2 billion fortune from selling Oculus Rift to Facebook, and subsequent departure following the controversy surrounding secretly bankrolling a group circulating...
The Secret to Being Happy
Brian Tracy spent nearly 4,000 hours studying human psychology and understanding how people can be happier and more fulfilled. Many times this is the No. 1 ingredient that people are missing in their lives. In this clip from Maximum Achievement: The Brian Tracy...
Why Gender Diversity Matters to Event Planners
The largest marketing, sales and leadership conferences in the world are facing a huge challenge. Traditionally, conference audiences and speakers have been nearly 100 percent white males. However, times have changed. The make-up of the audience is now evenly split...
Bloomberg Launches New RMB Bond Suite For Global Investors
RMB Bond Suite features the industry’s most advanced fixed income investment tools for China’s interbank bond market Beijing, Hong Kong – Bloomberg today announced the launch of its new RMB Bond Suite, the industry’s most advanced fixed income investment tools for...
The Clearing Corporation of India Distributes Foreign Exchange Rates on Bloomberg Platform
CCIL’s provision of real-time rates to India’s interbank community enhances market transparency Mumbai – The Clearing Corporation of India (CCIL) and Bloomberg today announced that real-time foreign exchange rates from CCIL will be made available to India’s interbank...
December Newsletter
This Month's TOPIC // Closing the Year 4 Things to Add to Your End-of-the-Year Checklist The end of the year is the perfect time for business owners to reflect on the growth of their business in the last twelve months. It can help to shape the following months, as...
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November Newsletter
This Month's TOPIC // Honoring Our Veterans Why America’s Veterans Make the Best Entrepreneurs The men and women who serve our country are some of the most trusted individuals in American society. Notably, 73% of citizens have confidence in the military, the highest...
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October Newsletter
This Month's TOPIC // What Scares You? The Imposter We all reach a time in our life where we feel like we're wearing a mask and somehow we've tricked everyone around us into thinking we are more awesome and more qualified than we really are. We feel like we don't...
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September Newsletter
This Month's TOPIC // Caring For Your Family Balancing Family & Entrepreneurship Balancing all the aspects of family life and entrepreneurship can be quite the undertaking. Especially if you mainly work from your home. It's easy to let guilt take over and...
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August Newsletter
This Month's TOPIC // Back To School Student's Benefit Business "Eric Johnson, an Executive Coach and Director of Graduate Career Services at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, says "students are eager to contribute and have an amazing ability to learn...
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