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By: Stacey Miller A little about Tim Ferriss: In 2001, at the age of 23, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, a San Jose-based online company that sells sports nutrition supplements.He sold the company in January 2009 to an unnamed London-based private equity firm. He is now a full-time angel investor and has invested in the following companies: Twitter, Posterous, DailyBurn (formerly Gyminee), Reputation Defender, Foodzie, Badongo, RescueTime, and SimpleGeo. He also acts as an advisor to StumbleUpon and Shopify which, he has alluded to in interviews with Kevin Rose, are in exchange for equity. He holds the Guinness Book of World Records' record for the most consecutive tango-spins in one minute. Ferriss and his dance partner Alicia Monti set the record live on the show Live with Regis and Kelly. Prior to his writing career, Ferriss wrote that he became the national champion in the 1999 USAWKF Sanshou (Chinese kickboxing) championship through a process of shoving opponents out of the ring. In 2008, he won Wired Magazine's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" prize and was named one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People of 2007". Ferriss has also spoken at the EG Conference. One of the ways that Tim talks about making your first million involves working with a product that is hands off and scalable. **************************************************** Read more here: http://mlwblog.com/ End
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