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Desh Deshpande: What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur
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Desh Deshpande is President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC Dr. Deshpande founded Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks and has chaired and funded several other companies. Deshpande is a life member of the MIT Corporation. The Deshpande Foundation supports Social entrepreneurship and provided the founding grant for NSF Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM) and Deshpande Center at MIT. Desh sits down with Scott to discuss what it takes to be an innovative and successful entrepreneur.
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