Kalin Pentcheve, a recent immigrant from Bulgaria, USA, starts a business importing Bulgarian feta cheese in bulk and sell it in the U.S.. Pentcheve has no experience of any import / export business and food industries. Deal with a search, using the network of existing contacts and develop new contacts, scraping together money from friends, relatives and others to fund companies developing sales strategy, trying different "channels", and learning by doing. To locate the beginning of a new course of enterprises. "Hide
by William D. Bygrave, Carl Hedberg Source: Babson College 15 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2003. Prod. #: BAB098-PDF-ENG
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