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Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
Despite the enormous wealth of the Gulf States, the Arab world has experienced little or no industrial revolution. At its core it remains backward-looking and feudal in structure, with the oil paying for an army of foreigners to keep the economic wheels turning
First-time founders see all sorts of issues and want to resolve them by themselves. This can overwhelm them and be inefficient. Second-time founders think thoroughly who the best person (other than themselves) is to solve any given problem and focus their own energy on the big ones.
What Successful Second-Time Founders Do Differently
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