Successful entrepreneurs tell of the events that pushed them over the edge and gave them the inspiration to start their companies. Flashback to December 2006 as Robert Conrad, founder of Zeno, tells of repeated theft from his garage that prompted him to partner with a friend to launch his invention. Flashback to November 2006 and an interview with Chris Devonshire-Ellis, founder and senior partner of Dezan Shira & Associates, one of the leading advisory and tax accounting firms in China, as he talks about diving into an unknown market. Finally, in this segment from May 2007, Garrett Boone, co-founder of The Container Store, talks about the early ideas that morphed into his 40-store retail operation.

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