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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

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The Rubik’s Cube is a run-away success straight from the unlikely homeland of Communist Hungary. Lipitor (1997). Rubik’s Cube (1980). Image courtesy of Ryan Roberts. The puzzle’s inventor, Erno Rubik, patented the soon-to-be-iconic puzzle in 1975 and launched it internationally in 1980. Image courtesy of The Daily Beast.

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Social Enterprises Globally

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NESsT was co-founded by an American and a Chilean in 1997 and is currently a registered charity in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Peru, Romania, the U.K. The 2012 Social Enterprise World Forum, hosted by NESsT, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October. and the U.S. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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