Thousands of small printers folded.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Yet most impressive are the more modest homegrown ventures: new boutique hotels, restaurants, small IT shops, printers, event planning, and tourism offerings. (In 2010 alone, 18, 447 new businesses were registered in Rwanda.) A young woman dressed in smart attire urged two visitors to come to her new shop, which sells upscale fabrics and offers custom tailoring.

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