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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started CedarLane Natural Foods over thirty years ago after emigrating from Lebanon to escape war and social unrest. At that time, I had built my own social media following into the thousands (before the days of all the countless blogs on social media were created). Image Credit: Robert Atallah. That’s why I went into food.

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What you didn’t know about TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Forethought AI

K9 Ventures

Using my own image as I wasn’t sure about TechCrunch’s rules/policy around using their media for the blog post). And as he writes in his blog post On the nature of talent , it was his passion for computer science and problem solving that gave him access to opportunity and brought him to Silicon Valley. Immigrant Founders.

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I?m Honored That I Get To Work With Ayah Bdeir At littleBits

Feld Thoughts

But when I saw Ayah Bdeir’s blog post titled Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance on the littleBits blog, it brought tears to my eyes. In 1982, my family fled my home country of Lebanon because they feared for our lives during the Lebanese-Israel war; we were welcomed in Canada with open arms.

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Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Website/Blogging. website/blog spelling checker. Analytics blog â?? WordPress - king of blogging platformsâ?¦doubles another blogging platform. yet another blogging platform. blog on roadmap for learning rails.