The YFE network is a loose collection of about 3, 000 young women in the entrepreneurial game in some capacity.

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But there are question marks over whether the public-sector sort has the same entrepreneurial drive, political impact or capacity to sustain high economic growth over time.

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Why would the most entrepreneurial economy in the world, perhaps the most entrepreneurial in history, worry about its capacity to start-up new businesses?

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But this crisis in leadership was because college managers were expected to expand and become entrepreneurial, without having the experience or the capacity to do so, he said.

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Mason, who has professionally never worked for anyone else but himself in a fulltime capacity, attributes much of his entrepreneurial success to learning by trial and error at ThePoint.

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When he first became president in 2000, his popularity was guaranteed by a growing economy, spurred by rising oil prices, a devalued currency, macroeconomic stability, spare capacity left after the end of the Soviet Union and, above all, entrepreneurial activity.

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