We know that entrepreneurs who have more diverse networks, and more contacts are more likely to get disconfirming information.

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The start up company may come to nothing, but the real world experience he will get and the contacts he will make will be much more useful to him than any MBA project.

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Although the Twitter message helped him find contacts to get out of prison, he says it was more the power of the network he had as an American that enabled him to be released so quickly.

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