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Stop Saying You Don’t Have The Money To Start — Dr. Marat Ressin

• YEDI (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute) • Season 2 • Episode 4

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Marat Ressin has rebuilt more than 30 failing businesses — and says he has never used his own money to do it. His answer to "I don't have the money to start a business" is the most useful 40 minutes you'll spend this week.

Dr. Marat Ressin is President of YEDI, the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Toronto, founder of Mares Group, and holds a PhD in economics specialising in small business crisis management. He bought a bankrupt bakery for almost nothing in post-Soviet Russia and still owns it. He has started companies on three continents and teaches as a visiting professor around the world — without, he says, ever trading his family for any of it.