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      I'm Mike, the owner of an athletic development company called HPC. I recently quit my financially secure day job to 1) finish my PhD and 2) take my business full time. It's a risky venture and a major redirection (hence the blog name) in my life. I love food, hate sleep, and want to be my own boss. I have mild OCD and ADD but I will always post, so please come back if you are interested in following this venture and maybe picking up some random bits along the way.
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    The last 2 weeks I’ve devoted much of my time to nailing down a place to set up my training facility for my business. I’ve got about a 7 mile radius that I’m looking in that encompasses most of Cary, NC and some of Morrisville The Crooked Man ipod and Apex, NC. I’ve scoured craigslist, loopnet and all the individual commercial real estate web sites; done countless 3 hour long exploration drives, and taken about... 

    As I’ve mentioned in the past couple days, I’ve moved to Cary, NC Jump In! download to pursue my business full time. One of the things I need to take the next step however is a facility. Up til this point HPC has been largely run without a facility. We’ve had an office in Cali, and some agreements with several universities to allow us to use their athletic facilities but we’ve never had a centralized training facility... 

    MSNBC says North Carolina is the best place to start a business in 2008 Money Magazine says Cary, NC is the 16th best small city in the U.S. Relocate America says Cary is in the top 100 places to live in America Kiplinger’s says Raleigh, NC is the 2nd best place in the U.S. to Live, Work & Play Forbes says Raleigh was ranked as the top place in the U.S. for jobs in 2006 & 2007 (9th in 2008) Cowboy trailer Forbes says Raleigh...