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When considering what business to start …

Flora Mutahi, CEO and founder of Melvin Marsh International.

Don't be a cookie cutter
My parents were seasoned entrepreneurs and my mother would always tell us, "Do not go down the beaten path. You have to stand out."

That means that in everything I did, I had to find a different way of doing things that nobody else was doing.

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