At twenty something, it was easy for me to believe that I had the Midas touch, and that I could do no wrong on the trading floor.
That their launches this week seem so similar could be a testament to the fact that the holidays are approaching and the whole world becomes nostalgic at this time of the year or (and this is possibly the more likely explanation) it could have more to do that the founders of both companies are twenty something urban women.
One success story is Glovo, recently launched by a group of twenty-something entrepreneurs.
But even if we outlawed marriage in the twenty-something years, age alone is not what makes women sacrifice.
The twenty-something artist became interested in dough sculpting after visiting a folk-arts exhibition in Beijing about seven years ago.
BrewDog is a Scottish craft brewery run by a couple of twenty-something punks.
Forced to move in with mom, dad or friends, this twenty-something crowd has been hard hit by the recession.
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The heroine of their latest book, Outsourcing Murder, is a twenty-something IT consultant.
In South Korea the employment rate of women in their 20s (59.2%) recently overtook that of twenty-something men (58.5%).
The Tower Bridge idea was from a man called Tom Armitage, who describes himself as a twenty-something games designer and technologist.
The oyaji girl--a twenty-something professional who works hard and plays hard--has been the clearest beneficiary of the new latitude for women.
The Summit Series, the five-year old entrepreneur conference run by a gang of mostly twenty-something nomads, is setting down roots.
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At night, twenty-something singles in tight skirts and linen shirts cross the casino and the marble arcades on their way to the nightclub.
She was a twenty-something account executive-turned-assistant when she first started working for one of the most famous men in the world: John F.
Twenty-something Billy (Russell Harvard), the youngest member of the family, is deaf, and seems to bend in whichever direction the blustery household weather blows.
Their twenty-something ponderings on the nature of the universe, and where the next rave will be held, are out there for everyone to see on Twitter.
Moreover, there was a collective bias towards in-person education, high-priced credentials, and going into massive debt as a rite of passage for almost every American twenty-something.
Style blogging has also made room for women who don't fit into the twenty-something model actress mold to show off their personal style and give fashion advice.
The title refers to the marriage of Jamie and Cathy, two appealing, twenty-something New Yorkers who set out on their romantic journey full of hope, optimism and vigor.
Chen might hire another twenty-something who was fluent in English.
It is an established fact that college students love to talk their way to intellectual discovery, though the kids in this crowd were more smartly dressed than your average twenty-something.
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Jamie (Kunis) and Dylan (Timberlake) are two twenty-something, good-looking people who are both busy and career-oriented, and also both emotionally-damaged and just-dumped, and who are so not into wanting another relationship.
To the extent that some start-ups and VCs remain stuck on traditional models of entrepreneurs (Twenty-something programmers in Silicon Valley), there are other VCs like 500 Startups whose entire business model depends upon leveraging underappreciated talent.
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This was Enable Talk, a pair of gloves that with the help of sensors and new smartphone software developed by a team of twenty-something programmers from the Ukraine, could change the way deaf people communicate with the world around them.
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As a twenty-something woman immersed in media, I take it as a given that every advertising image I look at has been altered from cheeseburgers to celebrities but I concede that I might be living in the biased vacuum of New York City.
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This is where adrenaline junkies come to attach themselves to bungee cords and jump off bridges, and where young world travelers party until dawn (or well after, given the well-dressed twenty-something couple I saw emerge from the woods at 8am and stagger back into town).
Started by Tammy Tibbetts, a passionate twenty-something colleague of mine who went from being a web and social media editor at Hearst to running a growing and influential 501(c)(3) that has so far helped girls in eight Third World countries, including India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and South Sudan.
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Annette's career fell into decline, alas, as relatively innocent trifles such as "Beach Blanket Bingo" were edged out of theaters by the likes of "The Graduate" and "Easy Rider, " as the much-sought "youth audience" started demanding less homogenized and more realistic depictions of teen and twenty-something life in feature films.
In the ad, a twenty-something decides not to sign on the dotted line and sell his soul to the devil despite the prospect of hanging out with Kate Upton and Usher when he sees the completion of a billboard telling him he can get the stylish new Benz for that astonishingly low price.
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Yes, not every child who has now grown into a twenty-something enjoyed a wealth of extraneous compliments, but for those who did, reality is proving to be as harsh as it is for poor Pluto to realize that not only is he not a planet anymore, but now there are a billion other planets to mock him.
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