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6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished

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His lifetime player salary was nearly $100 million, but it is as an entrepreneur that he has made the greatest impact. As a brand unto himself, he not only acted as a spokesman, endorsing numerous other brands, but is also the owner of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats, which he bought for around $175 million in 2010. Photo: Håkan Dahlström.

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Kevin Durant Could Teach Businesses a Thing or Two

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Charlotte wasn’t big enough for Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson. Don’t think such an attitudinal evolution didn’t factor into the league’s growth in popularity and the enormous television revenue increases that stretched the salary cap and allowed the Warriors to pursue Durant. This new trend is good business for the NBA.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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I started SnapCap after realizing that the traditional business loan model just doesn’t work for small businesses. Small businesses don’t have mass amounts of money to weather financial curveballs or hardship, nor can they afford the lengthy time it takes for banks to approve them a loan.