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Business Lessons from Bolt, Phelps, et al.

Growthink Blog

The great sprinter Usain Bolt personifies this, sharing the story of how as a teenager in Jamaica he competed barefoot because he could not afford shoes to now where he has parlayed his Olympic success into a net worth of over $60 million. Similarly, in business, only a very few companies become Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, et al.,

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. We are now based in Atlanta, but we started out on a college campus in Jamaica as a team of one: me. My greatest strength is in connecting with people.