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SHOULD YOU BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
My black dress shoes were soaked through. I couldn’t feel my toes. But I needed to keep moving. The few vehicles on this stretch of Oklahoma highway blasted through the rapidly accumulating snow. They were trying to outrun the blizzard, but there was no escaping it for me. I was on foot. As the cars passed, they splattered ugly gray-black sludge across my suit and tie.
“I’m going to die,” I muttered through a shiver. “What the hell am I doing?”
The answer was simple: I was desperately trying to make a sale.
It was February 2011, a few months before the terrible board meeting I recounted in the Introduction, ...
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