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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

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As an entrepreneur, you’ll learn what kind of work you enjoy and start to understand how you can make a difference in your community,” he says. Reason #7: Fill a void in the community. The community and the public response have been phenomenal.” Connect on Twitter: @sfboehner @MyLikes. Reason #3: Make more money.

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Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.