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If your business depends entirely on you for access to critical information, one emergency can put everything at risk. Here’s how to build a continuity plan before that ever happens.

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Founders spend years protecting the intellectual property that gives their business value. However, many also overlook a more basic risk. If the founder is the only person who knows where critical information lives and how things are done in the most effective way, the business can be left exposed the moment they are suddenly unavailable.