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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

Offering a product or service that is lacking in your area is a great reason to start a business, Drew Phillips, owner of The Angry Beaver, a gay/straight hybrid bar in West Virginia, says. “Me, The community and the public response have been phenomenal.” ” Find The Angry Beaver on Facebook! “And

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25 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Love About Running Their Business

Hearpreneur

I interact with passionate people – the art collectors and experts (curators, archivists, dealers, artists). In founding our business- the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, a historic Coal Heritage Trail inn in Landgraff, West Virginia- in 2003, at the ages of 57 and 44, we reinvented ourselves- and not for the first time!