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- Barack Obama - Mitt Romney - unemployment - US economy


Steven Koltai, CEO of Koltai & Company

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In this program we're taking a look at the US presidential campaign from an entrepreneur's perspective. Markus Karlsson talks to a 'serial entrepreneur" - Steven Koltai, CEO of Koltai and Company which provides advise to growth-companies as well as investors. He also designed and led the US-Department's Global Entrepreneurship Programme.

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