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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

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10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] That even though everyone in South Africa said to us, you're mad, what are you doing going to America for a sales app? Let's go back to South Africa. 08:58] You talk about superpowers and finding your superpower.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

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Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it. We watched together. Los Angeles'

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

from South Africa, and battling breast cancer, I became overwhelmingly humbled by the toughness, the tenacity of my experience. It would be on the clients I work with, their employers, the networks I join and the online communities. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Cheryle Jackson.

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