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How Two Entrepreneurs Used Their Complete Lack of Business Experience to Their AdvantageHere are three practical tools we used to get started when we had no idea how to start.

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The following edited excerpt is from Tyler Gage'sFully Alive: Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life.

我的合伙人丹MacCombie m的论文arsh crab habitats in New England. Mine had been a magical realist novel. We'd been friends since the first week of our freshman year at Brown University, and now, one week after graduating, we found ourselves in Ecuador with the dream of co-founding a business together. And not your everyday sort of business, but one that would require us to build a supply chain for a rare Amazonian tea leaf calledguayusa(pronounced "gwhy-you-sa") that had never been commercially produced before.

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