Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, has said that entrepreneurship is like jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.

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For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.

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Faced with the edge of a cliff, according to media accounts, they would prefer jumping off with a homemade parachute made of bed sheets to finding another way safely down.

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