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BY:\u00a0REBEKAH ILIFF<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic these days. Countless articles and books have been written about it, entire university curricula have been built upon its precepts and success stories touting billionnaires who went from \u201czero to hero\u201d infiltrate our newsfeeds and status updates.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, entrepreneurship is no longer reserved for those with primary inventions and enough courage to risk their entire savings on an innovative idea. Rather, it has become the \u201cright\u201d — to a degree — for those of us fortunate enough to have been plopped into an environment that can sustain our entrepreneurial ideas. Living in a developed country means we have supportive government policies, access to capital and technological infrastructure. So, starting a business, for the most part, is just as viable as pursuing a more traditional profession. This isn’t the case across the globe.<\/p>\n

In less developed countries or \u201cemerging economies,\u201d the idea of entrerpreneurship takes on an entirely different meaning. It\u2019s not about building a huge company with the goal being an IPO or an acquisition; and it\u2019s not necessarily even about innovation, as we think of it from a technological standpoint. Rather, one\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit emerges in spite of dire circumstances to solve different problems: supporting a family\u2019s basic needs, sending a child to a better school and often times creating a safer environment for themselves in which to work.<\/p>\n

Several months ago, the team at Qualcomm Wireless Reach<\/a> asked me to join them in\u00a0and the Phillippines and Malyasia to visit some of their current projects in conjunction with Hapinoy and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, where they are utilizing mobile technology to train, launch and sustain entrepreneurs. Having just attended the Dell Women\u2019s Entrepreneur Network conference<\/a> in Berlin the timing didn\u2019t work from my end, but I was fascinated by this concept of \u201cwhat entrepreneurship means to me\u201d — having just spent time with over 200 entrepreneurs from across the globe.<\/p>\n

I asked the Qualcomm Wireless Reach crew if they\u2019d be willing to share the heartwarming (and often heart wrenching) stories of the entrepreneurs they were visiting, with the intention to inspire my fellow entrepreneurs toward greatness.<\/p>\n

From a woman who survived the Phillippines\u2019 Typhoon Haiyon after losing her brother and 17 grandchildren\u00a0to a single mother who is supporting two children on less than $100 a month, these stories are a gentle reminder that at the heart of entrerpreneurship — no matter where you come from — is the idea that financial pursuit is not the only goal. Rather, it\u2019s how we choose to pursue our goals despite what we do or don\u2019t have, the lessons we learn in the process and the people we positively influence along the way.<\/p>\n

Here are four stories that are sure to insipire\u2026<\/p>\n

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