Meet the Rebels Who Bend the Rules and Play to WinRejection -- who cares? Naysayers -- screw 'em. Entrepreneurship isn't just about business. it's about rebellion.
ByJoe Robinson•
This story appears in theOctober 2015issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
Abe Issa trudged up the walkway to another suburban front door, sweat sliding down his back in the blast furnace of a Fort Worth, Texas, summer. He had a pretty good idea of how he'd be received on the other side of the locked screen: "Not interested." "Don't need it." "Don't waste your time." Take your pick.
"Whenever I got rejected, it would sting," admits Issa, whose family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 5 to escape the civil war in Lebanon.
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