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Chinedu Echeruo: Take Action to Find Ideas

By Chinedu Echeruo — 2015

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Entrepreneur and investor Chinedu Echeruo urges aspiring entrepreneurs to not look for ideas, but to discover new ideas through activity and action. Rather than seeing creativity as an abstract concept, Echeruo argues that it be used as a tool to unleash value in the world.

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