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MARTEN DE JEU ARTICLE

Maarten De Jeu may not be the first name that comes to mind when they think of global business giants. Wealthy business celebrities and YouTube entrepreneurs like Gary Vaynerchuk tend to overshadow the more strategic and dominant players in the field, and Maarten De Jeu is one of those players. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in international business, and most things related to finance and real estate, since around 1997, from forming multiple businesses to stepping on to run others, Maarten De Jeu has proved to not only the business world but the world itself that he's here to stay.

After attending Leidan University for Social science, Maarten De Jeu moved on to earn his MBA from Oxford University next where he went in to graduate first in his class. After his training in school, Maarten went on to work in international corporate strategy at TVDK Management Consultants where he remained for ten years from 1997 to 2007. Five years later Maarten would launch SVM Business Advisor in 2012 where he racked up experience international business, financial services, and commercial real estate. Not only has Maarten built a successful company from the ground up but he also has advised the wealthiest people in the world alongside a long list of Fortune 100 companies. On top of that Maarten can also say he's bilingual.

MARC BEER ARTICLE

Based out of the State of Florida, Marc Beer is best known today as CEO, Chairman, and founder of multiple businesses. He's been a lifer of success many times over, from navigating the tricky and uncertain playing field of startup companies, to the Biotech industries, all the way down to the big time players of the pharmaceutical space. For over twenty-five years now, Marc Beer has solidified his name as not only a serial success but as a key asset in multiple business markets. The following article will go over how Marc got to where he is today, what has been the hardest decisions, what makes success, and a lot more.

After attending Miami University Marc Beer finds himself most knowledgeable and experienced in business development, commercialization, Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, devices, and linguistics. His proverbial big break came when becoming the CEO of Viacell, a biotechnology company that specializes in using human cells as medicine. While in this role, Marc also headed the Board of Directors of Enrytech Pharmaceutical. The combination of both these positions soon put Marc on the business map. Before his big break Marc held various sales positions and marketing roles.

BETTERWORKS ARTICLE

Betterworks has been an institution that focuses on perfecting the performance of management teams with a mission statement to always enhance the communication landscape between the workforce and their managers.

For those in the employer roles who aren't acquainted with a Betterworks OKR stysem or other means of vigorous training, there are three great and simple strategies that are sure to maximize your workforce that Betterworks says you can start using right away.

ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY ARTICLE

In the United States, the college landscape is vast, with a varied demographic of students, location based school standards, liberal and conservative ideals, along with the STEM and art fields. Today we take a look at the very last one, an art focused college that goes by the name Academy of Art University. We're not only taking a look at what makes this a standout art school but also what piece of art is making news by being displayed there.

Hailing out of San Francisco since the early year of 1929, Academy of Art University has been the go-to college for student artists and designers alike. The school prides themselves on helping those with artistic minds master their crafts.

The big news for the school this month comes from an art installation on the roof by renowned French artist JR dubbed "The Chronicles of San Francisco". The installation which is free and open to the public features San Francisco historical animations and intricately put together wheat murals.

LOCATION SMART ARTICLE

LocationSmart has announced it's official expansion to Canada with LaaS Location-as-a-Service.

For years, LocationSmart has been servicing fortune 500 hundred companies and smaller ones cementing themselves as one of the go-to companies for location APIs, using it's platform to create one of the premier products that specialize in verification services, compliance, asset tracking, cybersecurity, and operational efficiencies. LocationSmart not only focuses on assets but also workers, and consumers. LocationSmart has proven they have an expanding knowledge of protecting global Wi-Fi location, finding devices in nearly any location, determining location domestically or internationally, locating GSM/CDMA/WCDMA/LTE/Wi-Fi-only devices.

LUKE LAZARUS ARTICLE

In today's unpredictable marketplace, few minds are accurately reliable for companies to bet their revenue on for advice. With the advent of social media changing the landscape of marketing as we know it, and technology forcing jobs to lose human hands, one man named Luke Lazarus has found away to steamroll companies to the front of the financial marathon.

In a time where entrepreneurship is beginning to be a viable and stable route of income, Luke Lazarus has stuck his flag in the field with his expertise. Starting back in his formidable college years, Lazarus was essentially a sought after free agent for the top colleges not only where he grew up in Melbourne Australia but also across the globe with full-time options to most Ivy League Universities. Deciding to stick to his roots, Lazarus chose Melbourne Business school where he honed his craft and earned his MBA.

POKEMON ARTICLE 1

Since the very beginning in 1996 with the release of Pokemon Red and Green in Japan, The Pokemon Company has done far more than just produce a line of popular video games. It has become a mainstay in mainstream culture worldwide for the past twenty-years. Aside from virtual media there's been literature, a super popular trading card game, anime, manga, a plethora of other merchandise, and hundreds of Pokemon, the company's bread and butter.

The Pokemon Company has never failed to create new and interesting Pokemon for their avid fans. And within those vast hundreds over the last two decades, some Pokemon have exhibited lightning abilities, others have water powers; the list goes on with some Pokemon even being able to summon rocks as a one of their special abilities. But then there's another type of Pokemon, and at first glance you may think this one is some sort of leafy dinosaur, with its mustard yellow and green tree-like characteristics. But upon closer look at this four- legged, long necked, smiling, red-eyed creature you see a Pokemon named Bayleef, who was once Chikorita before evolution. From a shooting ability that leaves people Peppy, some evolutionary chain statistics, origins and more, today we take a look at Pokemon's resident tree lover Bayleef, and just what makes this Pokemon so special.

Introduced in generation two, which is pretty much season two in Pokemon talk, Bayleef has been around since the relative beginnings of the Pokemon world debuting in the Pokemon Games Gold and Silver in 1999 and then in the anime series as the second ever catch of series protagonist (Not as Bayleef but as Chikorita). In the episode titled The Chikorita ​ Rescue, Bayleef appears appears as his first evolution Pokemon Chikorita. ​

POKEMON ARTICLE 2 SAME CLIENT

Nintendo began as a company in the late 1800s, and over time much like the hundreds of Pokemon today, it evolved. Other forms of entertainment and products took place over the years and one of those comes in the form of The Pokemon Company which in 1996 gave the world the release of Pokemon games Red and Green in Japan. But it wasn't until Pokemon ​ ​ ​ ​ mainline games Gold and Silver debuted that a little Pokemon who looks like a ferret with ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ flames would make his presence known in the franchise. His name is Quilava, the second form evolution Pokemon after Cyndaquil and this small yet fierce Pokemon has been exciting fans not only in the hit mainline video games but you can catch this Pokemon's likeness on everything from from t-shirts, trading cards, an anime series, and more. With a proven track record of The Pokemon Company creating new and interesting Pokemon for their avid fans, Quilava doesn't disappoint. So from the red and yellow flames on his back to all the times he's evolved on screen, let's take a look at what makes this twenty-year old fire breather still keep us entertained.

After the Pokemon games were such a success in both North America and Japan, the TV series/anime was next to follow. And if video games wasn't a big enough platform to help people get familiar with the franchise, then the series would definitely be the deciding factor.

Quilava debuted in Generation two and has remained making appearances all the way up to generation six. Known as the Volcano Pokemon, Quilava and his other evolutionary forms hail ​ ​ from the Jhoto region. Quilava first appeared in the TV series in the episode titled Love, ​ Pokemon Style! This was episode 269 of the series and in it, Quilava belonged to a character ​ named Macy. Quilava goes on to appear in later episodes following his first appearance. In an episode titled Shocks and Bonds, Ash Ketchum uses his in a battle against Quilava ​ ​ who in the episode is owned by a trainer named Clark. Then Quilava went on to appear in another episode titled The Champ Twins! Where Quilava faces off on a tag battle, which can ​ ​ sometimes be a rare occurrence in Pokemon.

POKEMON ARTICLE 3 SAME CLIENT

In a day and age where there's more content on the internet than there are children's television channels, a name like Croconaw may sound like a species off the Discovery Channel. But what if you were to find out that it's actually the name of a two-decade old Pokemon that still gets fans excited today?

Since the very beginning in 1996 with the release of Pokemon Red and Green in Japan, The ​ ​ ​ ​ Pokemon Company has produced hundreds of Pokemon, a line of games, truckloads of merchandise, a super popular trading card game, anime, manga, and more. They've done this for the last twenty-years under the guidance of Nintendo. But today we are going to take a look away from the macro that is the Japanese behemoth- The Pokemon Company and shine the light on one of it's oldest characters, with his mohawk like hair and dinosaur appearance, his name is Croconaw. Today we'll look at not only his history in the franchise, but we'll run down his stats, his evolution, what games you can find him in, and just what makes this Pokemon stand out from the rest.

In the Pokemon world, creatures are logged in through a virtual encyclopedia called a Pokedex. In all the games, all the series reboots, this Pokedex is a key component to helping not only the characters learn about the Pokemon they seek to catch, but it's also is a clever way by the writers to give fans all the information they need on their favorite or unknown to them Pokemon. One feature that the earliest Pokedexes lack though is a history tab; a directory of origins. Today on the other hand, we're going to take a look at the history of Croconaw.

POKEMON ARTICLE 4 SAME CLIENT

Some would say that 2018 wasn't the most memorable year for the Nintendo Switch, with not many big name first-party games dropping like the previous year which saw the world's Nintendo best seller Zelda: Breath of The Wild and the multiplayer hit ink shooter game ​ ​ Splatoon 2. But there were two games for not only the Nintendo Switch but also the Pokemon ​ franchise which featured two of the Pokemon companies biggest characters- and . Titled Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! And Let's Go, Eevee!, let's say you absolutely love ​ ​ ​ ​ both of these Pokemon, you've followed them throughout the last twenty years or maybe you know absolutely nothing about them; how do you go about choosing one over the other let alone their respective games? Let's take a look at the tale of the tape.

PIKACHU

The New York Mets have Mr. Met. The Simpsons have Homer. McDonalds has Ronald McDonald, and Pokemon, well they have a bright yellow, red-cheeked Pokemon named Pikachu. There's no doubt that out of the roughly thousand Pokemon in existence, that Pikachu is the face of the franchise. From trading cards, t-shirts, lunchboxes, phone skins, movies, all the way down to having his (Pikachu is a he when his tail is without an indent on the end) own float in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Pikachu is arguably the most recognizable Pokemon in the franchise making him the face of the brand. But this wasn't totally supposed to be the case as ScreenRant.com writes that Clefairy was actually set to be Pokemon's mascot at first.

"It was thought that Clefairy would be engaging and would draw people in, but once the animated series began production it was quickly understood that a yellow central character would be the best for the brand."

There you have it, Pikachu is actually the underdog of the story, as another Pokemon was handpicked to move the brand forward.

PIKACHU'S HISTORY

“The process of designing not just Pikachu but Pokémon in general was complicated, with multiple people putting their ideas together and modifying the design to create a single character."-

Pikachu first debuted in 1996 in the first Pokemon games Red and Green, created by Ken sugimori, Koji Nishino, and Atsuko Nishida where he became a surprise hit with fans. Being one of the first partner characters in the game, the then chubbier-cheeked design of Pikachu instantly made fans fall in love with him. This, also cushioned by the likability of the Pokemon games themselves, it lead to an anime series order featuring Pikachu titled Pokemon: The ​ Series airing in 1997 a year later. From there, the popularity of Pokemon and Pikachu gained ​ ​ ​ traction and twenty years later today, here we are.