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It's November, which means it's National Entrepreneurship Month.
And for Minneapolis-based entrepreneur Harvey Mackay, it's a time to reflect on the "unsung hero of our economy": the entrepreneur.
"From my perspective, the entrepreneur is the unsung hero of our economy," he writes at Bloomberg.
Here are his 10 favorite entrepreneurs: Eli Whitney: The cotton gin inventor was watching a fox raid his chicken coop when he came up with the idea for a claw or rake to pull cotton fibers through a grid and leave the seeds behind.
Nina Blanchard: She invested her last $300 in a Los Angeles modeling agency, thinking many of the models whom her school trained needed work.
Photographers began calling her immediately but, fearing that her models weren't ready for prime time yet, she announced they were unavailable.
Word spread around town that the Blanchard Agency's models were always booked, which attracted other models who wanted to be represented by the hottest agency in town.
Jasper Daniel: He was 7 years old when he was offered a job as a houseboy for a Lutheran minister who was also a merchant, farmer, and whiskey distiller.
When his boss pressured him to choose between the pulpit and his business, he offered his now 13-year-old apprentice
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