There are innumerable challenges that come with entrepreneurship, no matter your intelligence, wealth or network pedigree.
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"There are a couple of things I thought were missing from my pedigree, " Kuchar said.
At a school with a lesser gridiron pedigree, it probably would lessen the experience.
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Dullahan trainer Dale Romans expected a good showing from the American horses, considering their pedigree.
He has achieved cult status because of his championship pedigree which includes five NBA titles.
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Lord Lloyd-Webber's musical pedigree includes Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats and Starlight Express.
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In Boston I was hampered by a lack of a Harvard or MIT pedigree.
He still had to penetrate a political machine that usually required a hometown pedigree.
The delivery service said that fans had sent him, as a gift, a top-pedigree dog.
Despite his Red Sox pedigree, Youkilis, 34, has quickly become just one of the guys.
Balza instilled in his first recruits the pedigree he carried with him from the sport's heartland.
Miura-Ko has a solid venture pedigree, having begun her career at Charles River Ventures.
Mr Williams does has some soccer pedigree - his daughter used to play for Arsenal Ladies!
But they could easily have been uttered by almost anyone with his education and intellectual pedigree.
Roberts attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive school in Beddau, a school with a real sporting pedigree.
He was skipper at Stoke and got promotion there, so he's got great pedigree.
Bill Clinton made his disparaging remarks about Governor Bush's pedigree at one of his innumerable fund-raisers.
Contrast that with the pedigree and experience of the Colonial Bank CFO, Sarah Moore.
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Samar's Brahmin pedigree holds him aloof from India's squalor but connects him to nothing else.
Her celebrations might need some work but Yu's pedigree in the noble art of fencing is indisputable.
In Japan, for example, Kabuki theater is dominated by acting families whose thespian pedigree goes back centuries.
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The Peterborough factory was opened in 1974 and produces dry pet food brands including Pedigree and Whiskas.
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Fluent in six languages, Cheah, 34, has an eclectic business pedigree worthy of Silicon Valley-style venture capitalism.
With such a pedigree, Mr Achleitner is already being tipped to succeed Allianz's urbane chairman, Henning Schulte-Noelle.
Atlanta Hilton Executive Chef Louis Spost says choosing a pumpkin with pedigree is an important starting point.
It was that diaspora, however, coupled with the building's historic Hollywood pedigree, that strengthened Leder's resolve to stay.
"We had quite a pedigree back in those days and we were quite successful, " Smith told BBC Sport.
The CEO with a sales pedigree may be overly optimistic, which leads to its own set of issues.
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These are, again, ideas with a long, long Republican pedigree -- a long, long history of Republican support.
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