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The untold pain of growing a business

Many successful businesses have had humble beginnings. [iStock]

Some of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs in the world started with the flimsiest of ideas and with a few resources.

When Bill Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen started making computer software, they were university students who feared they would not be taken seriously by big tech companies.

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