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Ep. 3492 - STORY: Failure Friday: “My business partner was a convicted felon…”
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Alan Perlman, the founder of a drone training company. His business now brings in seven figures a year, but it started with a rocky partnership.
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