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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: The essential points from Why Nations Fail

The Next Web

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

During my senior year of college I had to write a business plan for a construction business as I had a “dream” of starting my own business in the future.The love of the outdoors, as opposed to working in an office environment, propelled me to enter the green industry as an entrepreneur, when the opportunity presented itself.