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Hello World - Why I started this blog

As a serial entrepreneur, agile coach and parent watching my kids grow up - I'm seeing the need to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the world. I've always learned through a continuous loop of experimentation and believe this is a creative and learning skill. In the interest of sharing and hopefully getting feedback, I'm creating a web journal here to share what I learn as I go. to keep things simple and easy to navigate, I'll add what you (readers) need and hide (or revert to draft) old articles that nobody is reading.

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