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Being a Business Leader Amid Historical Events

Seeing Both Sides

When the Indiana state legislature passed the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act last March, there was an uproar in the business community. Tim Cook tweeted the following: My thoughts are with the victim's families in SC.Let us honor their lives by eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it. —

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

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,