Entrepreneur and businesswoman and author Deborah Rosado Shaw rose from poverty to create a multimillion-dollar umbrella-making business, Umbrellas Plus LLC. 

Ms. Shaw’s advice on getting ahead:

• Be willing to sacrifice.

• Get used to fear.

• Know where you’re going.

• Enlist the help of a business coach or mentor.

• Be creative about what you want.

• Make noise.

• Trade what’s predictable for what’s possible.

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