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// THE QUOTE
“Within one year I was on a picket line and six months later I came back to New Brunswick”
— Mark MacDonald · Electric Avenue Manufacturing Inc.
Tight founder turning-point: Nortel collapse to 'I can't rely on somebody else' to first business; complete arc, no outside context needed.
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THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
The E-Myth entrepreneur identity trap is real for technical founders: if you don’t deliberately schedule time away from technical tasks, you’ll keep falling back into them at the expense of the business.
“it's an identity thing almost... we've always worked with some great business coaches”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Career path: Nortel to entrepreneurship
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