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I regretted leaving my job for business

Stories abound of how Thomas Edison carried out a thousand experiments before his efforts bore fruits in the form of an electric lamp. Similarly, many startups go through many hiccups before being successful. And no one knows this better than John Gitau (pictured), who has started and closed businesses more times than he cares and one literally went up in smoke during the 2007 post-election crisis.

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