As for the Far East, Singapore is the easiest country in the world in which to start and run a business, says the World Bank.

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Let me say that right from a tender age, I had always told myself and everyone that I was going to start and run my own business which I always envisaged as a large business.

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If I run one business and want to start another, the money I invest in the second business is not tax deductible in any way.

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One of the most intuitive ways to think about the experience of small business owners as they start, run and grow their businesses is to compare it to raising a teenager.

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Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes, and cavort with people other than their spouses.

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Angel investor Paige Craig recently revealed on Business Insider his hesitation to invest in start-ups run by women, for fear that pregnancy in particular would distract them from work.

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Like Libya, which owned up to a once-secret weapons programme, Iran and North Korea got their start in the uranium-enrichment business from the nuclear black market run by Pakistan's disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan.

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Making that investment was a good start, but Trikona still hadn't developed a pipeline into the network of secretive family-run business groups that are usually the first to know about new deals coming up.

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If you really want to make business a tributary to society, what it needs to be, you had to start with young people, build a community so that when they entered that C-suite office they would run the business in a different way.

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