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Increase the Odds of Your Start-Up’s Success

Harvard Business Review

While traveling between India and the U.S. Each phase of my career offered different challenges, successes, and lessons, but my most exhilarating moments were undoubtedly during the start-up phases. billion business today, with 20,000 employees, and boasts some of the best people I’ve ever worked with.

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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. When Dietrich Mateschitz traveled to Thailand in the 1980s, he observed the popularity of a cheap energizing drink called Krating Daeng among truck drivers and construction workers. as young adult.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. Establish channels between possible partners.