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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I started CedarLane Natural Foods over thirty years ago after emigrating from Lebanon to escape war and social unrest. At that time, I had built my own social media following into the thousands (before the days of all the countless blogs on social media were created). Image Credit: Robert Atallah.

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What you didn’t know about TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Forethought AI

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Using my own image as I wasn’t sure about TechCrunch’s rules/policy around using their media for the blog post). Sami Ghoche , a co-founder and CTO of Forethought is originally from Lebanon. He interned at Facebook , Palantir , Dropbox , and then worked at Pure Storage. He is a husband, a father, and an entrepreneur.

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Startup Resources

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