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Howard Lindzon on Business Ideas Before the Internet

Masters in Business

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The Importance of Comedy in the 1980s

In 1980, Martin was sneaking into comedy clubs watching Jim Carrey and Dave Thomas. Here in New York, he went to 1130 show a comedy seller. Who was funny? I don't care who was famous. There was only one out of six that I thought were funny. He then moved to Arizona, go to ASU. From Toronto. Loved Arizona golf cycling. Got his MBA during the SNL crisis - it's like the early 80s right? Mid 80s? No, it's the SNL boom. And golf war breaks out. Yeah, 90. And pretty bad recession.Yeah, so that's when you started business and became a stockbroker.

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