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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Founded seven years ago, In Blue Handmade began when then I moved out of Chicago, left my job in the music business, dropped $90 on a Singer sewing machine and moved into a farmhouse in southern Illinois.