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Mike Michalowicz knows a thing or two about starting successful businesses. By age 35, he’d grown two multimillion-dollar companies from the ground up. Since then he’s added author, angel investor, and speaker to his CV. In books like Clockwork, Fix This Next, and The Pumpkin Plan, Michalowicz shares his wealth of experience in small-business strategy.

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