Crain’s New York Business: The company: BoeFly What it does: It’s an online marketplace matching small business borrowers with lenders around the country. How it’s doing: Founded in 2010 by two finance industry veterans, the Manhattan-based site is generating nearly $150,000 in revenue a month. It has raised $4 million from private investors. The founders […]
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StreetInsider.com: Games2U, Inc., the world’s leading provider of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has signed a deal to expand its presence throughout North America. With a reputation for delivering out-of-this-world residential, corporate and fundraising events across the U.S., Games2U has expanded its franchise opportunities into Canada. Games2U’s expansion into Canada was driven by “consumer
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RestaurantNews.com: Hurricane Grill & Wings has signed four new area development agreements. After seeing unprecedented growth throughout the year, new area developers Roger Patel and Tom Petska are taking Hurricane Grill & Wings and its laid back, family-friendly beach atmosphere into Louisiana, Minnesota, Georgia and Alabama and additional locations in Central Florida. With over 20
‎Visalia Times-Delta: The Visalia Chamber of Commerce will present the Central California Franchising Conference on owning a franchise from 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 2 at the Visalia Convention Center. The conference is for people considering starting their own business and will focus on the fundamentals of franchise ownership, evaluating a franchise and financing. Cost
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Franchising.net.au: The Danks group of independent retailers has agreed to acquire the business and assets of Tait Timber and Hardware in Victoria, which includes two stores, one in Tooronga and the other in Somerville. As part of the acquisition, Danks will make offers to retail all the Tait employees, including management. The Taits stores will
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SignOnSanDiego.com: Move over, KFC, your fried-chicken rival is looking to make a big push into San Diego. Atlanta-based Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen announced this week that it wants to significantly increase its presence in both the San Diego and Los Angeles markets by recruiting more franchise operators. The aggressive growth strategy comes at a time when
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QSRweb.com: Subway’s unit opening count for August and September was tallied at more than 400, further solidifying the chain as the largest in the world with more than 35,300 locations. Of particular note in this recent report was the number of new “Eco Restaurants” in the system. Four were opened in those two months alone,
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Scotsman.com: An entrepreneur who invented a pre-filled contact lens case after getting sore eyes during a flight to America has signed a transformational licensing deal with Polaroid that will see his creation launched worldwide in March. Knox developed [Contactspod] during his spare time but the invention took off after he was put in touch with
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Franchising.com: Computer Explorers, a Houston-based child technology education franchisor, is expanding to the world’s most populous country with a project that meets Chinese demand for U.S.-style creative and innovative education. Computer Explorers has licensed its curriculum and trademarks to XiXi (CeCe) Qian. Qian, who was born in China, came to Texas as a high school
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Rob Rowley believes he has found the perfect solution to beach erosion problems and much more. His solution comes in the shape of a pyramid. For years the self-taught engineer has been dabbling with designs to harness ocean energy. Now he believes the time has come to put his theories into practice. “I’ve invented a
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