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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. As a student with a high GPA and dreams of becoming a corporate attorney, I was heartbroken.

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Kevin Durant Could Teach Businesses a Thing or Two

crowdSPRING Blog

Allen Iverson couldn’t share with anyone in Philadelphia. Charlotte wasn’t big enough for Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson. He explains: By the turn of the century, no two (much less three or four) stars could coexist in one city. The best players deigned to have their own teams and could be happy only as the Jordans of their fiefs.