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May 2024
1h 19m

Ep 151: Starting a Business

BOB BORSON AND ANDREW HAWKINS
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We are finally conceding to a request that’s been made a thousand times – do an episode on starting an architectural business – a topic that I have resisted for essentially 6 years, and I think I’ve finally broken. This is not as easy of a topic to discuss as you might think because there are a million different ways you could answer a question this broad. I ... Show More
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