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One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?
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They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. their companies account for over $3 trillion of GDP (for the sake of comparison, that's 40% of China's entire GDP). What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? Because most managers are simply unbearable.
Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. In the start-up world, there’s a big focus on business incubators such as YCombinator–perhaps too much focus. Most stagnate.
But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. They had to have very limited access to key resources for scaling up young companies, such as capital, talent, and mentors.
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