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Jim Risch: If we do not address these issues now and create the environment in which entrepreneurship can flourish, surpassed and…

On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
If we do not address these issues now and create the environment in which entrepreneurship can flourish, surpassed and unfortunately perhaps in more environments that help startups will be created elsewhere rather than in the United States.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch warns that failing to support entrepreneurship could lead to startups moving abroad.

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