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5 Tips for Dealing With a Personal Crisis or Health Issue While Running a Business

Personal troubles happen. Don't let them derail you.
Calm amid chaos: Ted Murphy.

Ted Murphy is no stranger to fundraising under duress. In 2011, when the serial entrepreneur was raising capital to sustain Izea, his Orlando, Fla.-based social media marketing company, his mother was hospitalized for a quadruple bypass. The next year, while Murphy was raising another round of bridge financing, his prematurely born son spent two months in the neonatal

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