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

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Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse , a career platform and job discovery tool serving more than 4 million professionals worldwide. Entrepreneur Insider United States Profiles and Interviews' Got a question for Kathryn? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

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Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English).

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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

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by Chris Hale, CEO and Founder of kountable, Inc. Entrepreneurs hustle. If you’re on this site and reading this, you very well could be an entrepreneur, and even if you’re not, it’s likely you’ve seen one in action. It’s part of the deal—table stakes. In addition, there’s likely a “thanks for coffee, good chat!”

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. Jalak means glimpse and is a word in Hindi (it’s not a traditional name) and has provided much entertainment to taxi drivers in Mumbai, camel drivers in the Rajasthani desert and countless others.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

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