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Entrepreneur: America is in peril if we don’t get more entrepreneurs

"Entrepreneurship is often, if not always, humbling," says business owner Tra Williams. But the alternative — working for someone else — is worse.

Tra Williams has owned or run a variety of businesses over the past few decades.
Tra Williams has owned or run a variety of businesses over the past few decades.
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  • Manatee-Sarasota
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Tra Williams is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur, a creative, resourceful and sometimes impatient businessman who has run everything from a personal training referral business to Dairy Queens to a trucking school. 

 

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