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Live now: The founder of The Muse answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

Before founding The Muse, Kathryn worked on vaccine introduction in Rwanda and Malawi with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and previously at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. She was recently listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media for the second year in a row and Inc.’s s 15 Women to Watch in Tech.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: CorpsAfrica

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They are currently working in Morocco and Malawi, but hope to expand to all 54 African nations. Email smallbiz@crowdspring.com ! Instead of sending volunteers from countries that have little understanding of the real issues, CorpsAfrica is about empowering locals with the resources to come up with practical answers.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Instead of emailing notes, I put pen to paper, because I knew that despite all of our new communication tools, including email, social, and yes, even text messages, nothing beats the impact of a handwritten note. Handwritten notes are dying. Nobody has the time to buy a card, write it out, and mail it.

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

ConversionXL

Men are more responsive to email than face-to-face talk. Guadagno & Cialdini research (2002) showed that men seem more responsive to email because it bypasses their competitive tendencies. When you want to persuade a man you don’t know too well, start with an email. But, this only applies to distant relationships.

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