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I had lunch with a good friend from Dubai yesterday. We had only met in person once before briefly, but have shared countless emails and Skype conversations.
Though we wouldn’t end up meeting for another year, we were in the same room (along 600 other people) in Mumbai, India in 2004 for Crown’s Business by the Book Conference. This gentleman was a junior consultant with Ernst and Young in India and had decided to attend the conference with a friend.
Inspired by the idea of running a business by biblical financial principles, these two friends moved to Dubai to launch their company. He reminisced on the early start to the business:
Early on it was incredibly rough going, my wife and I shared a house with a single gentleman and another couple, and only my wife was able to bring in income during the difficult beginning.
But start they did.
Today they are rolling. With already over $23 million in revenue, they just landed by far their biggest client yet. The most impressive …


