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The Heisenberg Startup: 9 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Breaking Bad's Walter White



All good things come to an end. Tonight, Breaking Bad will air its final episode, "Felina," which is Spanish for feline. As much as I wish I could predict what relevance a cat has to do with our final look into Walter White's life, I'm not even going to try. Instead of looking forward to the final 75 minutes of the best show ever, let's look back on the past five years. After all, though ficitional, the prgamatic takeaways from Breaking Bad are inumerable at this point. In fact, if I were a business teacher (and the following statement may be good reason why I'll never teach anything), instead of a textbook, I'd make my students buy and watch the Breaking Bad series to learn valuable business lessons from Walt. That's right, from his triumphs to his epic failures, anyone founding a startup can stand to learn a thing or two from the great Heisenberg. So cheers to Breaking Bad for introducing the world to a new standard of visual storytelling brilliance, and please don't let us down.

  


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