New Entrepreneurs Plan Businesses in Poor Countries

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It's tough enough to start a new business these days -- try doing it in a developing country, where investors are scarce and your average customer lives on less than a dollar a day. And yet, that's what 25 aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world have come to Boulder to learn to do. Their host is the new "Unreasonable Institute" which chose them because they're not interested in merely selling widgets but because they see business as a way to improve life in their home countries. Ryan Warner speaks with the institute's president, Daniel Epstein, and with Zehra Ali, a native of Pakistan who's attending the program. She wants to sell low-cost insulation in her homeland.