Business in Action, 9th Ed.
Chapter 6: Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Ownership
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"If you’re an entrepreneur, you likely have a role model you carry around in your head as you go about building your business.
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"In the last five years “Lean Startup” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute.
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"If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.
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