The number of entrepreneurs has been ____ ever since the arrival of new technology and online services. This new technology has ____ the barriers that previously discouraged people from ____ up a business. Now, a company does not have to be ____ in an impressive office or employ lots of people. It could be just one person at home with a computer – like Nick D’Aloisio. He created an app in his bedroom to summarize news articles and then sold it to Yahoo for 30 million dollars – all before he ____ his 18th birthday! Or it could be someone like the best-selling author Amanda Hocking. Rather than finding a publisher to market and distribute her work, she self-published her fantasy-thrillers as e-books. She has since ____ over a million copies of them on Amazon. This new style of business particularly benefits people like Nick and Amanda: young people or people from other groups who have been ____ in corporate leadership. The number of entrepreneurs ____ ever since the arrival of new technology and online services. This new technology ____ the barriers that previously discouraged people from ____. Now, a company does not have to ____ office or employ lots of people. It could be just one person at home with a computer – like Nick D’Aloisio. He ____ in his bedroom to summarize news articles and then sold it to Yahoo for 30 million dollars – all before he ____ birthday! Or it could be someone like the best-selling author Amanda Hocking. Rather than finding a publisher to ____ her work, she self-published her fantasy-thrillers as e-books. She has since sold ____ copies of them on Amazon. This new style of business particularly benefits people like Nick and Amanda: young people or people from other groups who have ____ leadership. The number ____ the arrival of new technology and online services. This new technology ____ that previously discouraged people from setting up a business. Now, a company ____ or employ lots of people. It could be ____ – like Nick D’Aloisio. He ____ to summarize news articles and then sold it to Yahoo for 30 million dollars – all ____ ! Or it could be someone like the best-selling author Amanda Hocking. Rather than ____, she self-published her fantasy-thrillers as e-books. She has since ____ of them on Amazon. This new style of business particularly benefits people like Nick and Amanda: young people or ____ in corporate leadership.

Perspectives Upper-intermediate track 7 (unit 2)

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