paidContent.org: The current economy is making it tougher than ever to try to grow a startup?but in many ways, it’s never been easier to launch a new business. Tech platforms like social networks and open-source software have boosted the chances that people with good ideas will get their startups off the ground, even if they […]
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Entrepreneurialism: Not having enough money for a comfortable retirement tops the list of financial concerns among aging Americans, according to a recent Gallup Poll. It even outweighs peoples’ worries about having a serious illness or accident. With statistics showing that Americans can expect to live 20 or more years after reaching retirement age and our
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Entrepreneur: You can choose either to do the organizing work or to come in to a home and consult on the things the homeowner could do to better organize. Have a portfolio of different organizational scenarios in different rooms in the home and talk with the homeowner about the style he or she likes. Create
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The launch of the shopping cart was a huge flop.
Customers didn’t want to use the new invention. Young men thought they would appear weak using the carts; women thought they were unfashionable and too suggestive of a baby carriage.
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Edison Nation: Yahoo! Make It Green is looking for do-it-yourself ideas that improve lives and help our planet. This Live Product Search is a little different from our other searches. Yahoo! has built an entire site dedicated to allowing their members to vote on the best do-it-yourself green ideas. They’ve even subsidized the $25 entry
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Franchising.net.au: Franchisees in the retail franchise chain Samsara are continuing to trade and are not in administration, despite administrators being appointed to three of the companies associated with the Queensland business. A creditors meeting held 2 June showed debts of $2.2million for the company; approximately $1.3m secured debt; about $800,000 in unsecured debt; and employee
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NJ Biz: Abby and Ken Kohut both launched home-based businesses three years ago. Staffing Symphony, Abby Kohut’s recruitment consulting firm, occupies an office in their Springfield home a few steps from the office of Ken Kohut Photography. “It is a wonderful experience to have your own business,” Abby Kohut said. “But you have to be
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune: A survey in the just-released July issue of Consumer Reports magazine put First Watch Restaurants at the top of the list in the “Family” category of rated establishments. With a score of 86 out of a possible 100, the Bradenton-based chain, founded in 1983, topped 22 others in the category, including such industry
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Franchising.com: Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. today announced the sale of the Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental franchises in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the sale of the Thrifty Car Rental franchise in Omaha, Nebraska – including in-terminal airport operations at the McGhee Tyson Airport (Knoxville) and Eppley Airfield (Omaha) – converting both to
Chain Leader: DineEquity, Inc., the parent company of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar and IHOP Restaurants, today announced the appointment of Jean M. Birch as president of IHOP Restaurants effective June 22, 2009. As president, Birch will lead the overall strategic direction for all functional areas of IHOP’s predominantly franchised business and will be primarily
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