When it comes down to it, Jay Z is the epitome of what it means to be a Hustler.
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Prominent angel investor Dave McClure once said that you need a developer, a designer and a hustler for young companies to succeed.
At worst, it brings to mind a hustler who thrusts their card aggressively in your face with barely a hello uttered, all the while scanning over your shoulder for someone more important.
Not only could you trust a hustler with a few flameouts to understand the emerging contours of the post-Internet industrial landscape, you could trust him (and it is still mostly him) to have developed a set of good relationships for hiring and business development.
Instead of focusing on whether a longtime hustler with a history of making grandiose statements about his scientific process could really defy the laws of physics and chemistry, the SEC should have spent its time figuring out who facilitated the sale of so much worthless stock on the open market.
The doctor in "Mama, " played by Daniel Kash, is a psychologist, and a shameless hustler.
Huizenga didn't think much of Berrard's accounting degree, but he recognized him as a fellow hustler, and made sure he had some on-the-job training with Waste Management.
Rivera was a small-time hustler who had a history of promoting tires-to-energy schemes, among other things.
Most are a mix of visionary and hustler, with a dash of attention deficit disorder thrown in.
As in the original film, the story is about a small-time hustler who foolishly invades the turf of a powerful sports promoter and is decisively slapped down for his efforts.
Mike Damone, the ticket-scalping hustler with a stamina problem, would not exactly be thriving in 2010 either.
Thom, like Jimmy, does occasional jobs for his thuggy father as an enforcer, though he's mainly a sleazy real estate hustler partnered with low-life crooks.
So it was no surprise that during a visit to Florida two decades ago, the former pool hustler from South Carolina walked into a bingo hall and started chatting with the owner.
Technology startups typically have a hacker-and-hustler founding pair.
The Hustler Club in New York also filed a brief in the case.
In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.
So a more careful statement of my thesis would be: non-technical hustler founders of technology startups are the new labor.
In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit a certain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.
In 1892 an ambitious irrigation engineer and hustler named Charles Robinson Rockwood came up with the first plan to harness the river's wealth, a canal that would funnel water into a dried-out riverbed, irrigating the surrounding desert.
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