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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I’m grateful to be here 30 years later, providing care for thousands in the Middle Tennessee area. I started my business because I felt like I didn’t have as much of an impact as I wanted to in the small business I was working in because of the old school, bottom-line way of thinking about training and development.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. » More.