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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

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With my adolescent dreams up in flames, I decided to get back at my unsupportive mom and dad the only way I knew how: I became an entrepreneur. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. And that choice became a different kind of fantasy entirely. David’s advice.

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[Interview] Toronto’s Michael Beattie, Founder And CEO Of MBM Consulting

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Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. Today, his firm employs some 200 team members, and the firm itself is well known for its smart, innovative and quality work in construction and construction management in both Canada and the United States.

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