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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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