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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin. Photo Credit: Ira S.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

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When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. I mean, I think that's one thing that people miss often is that leadership is a philosophy, it's a set of principles. Essentially, I and our clinical leadership said, "We just have to be in the solutions part of this problem".