work

1. General: Situation where a recurring or one-time task is performed.

2. Contracting: Entire scope of a project encompassing all people, equipment, material, and other goods and services required to fulfill the contractor's obligations under a contract.

3. Intellectual property: Expression of human mind in images, language, movements, numerals, signs, sound, symbols, and/or other media.

Google writes powerful search algorithms; Steinway works wonders with wood; Cisco sniffs out promising new technologies and buys them. Figure out what you're good at and stick to it. An obvious notion, perhaps, but plenty of zealous entrepreneurs lose their way--especially when the world seems so full of possibilities.

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