The Detroit News: Jake Sigal isn’t old enough to remember the days of holding a microphone and cassette recorder next to a radio so he could take his latest favorite songs on the go. But that hasn’t stopped the 28-year-old Ferndale entrepreneur from inventing a 21st-century way to digitally do the same thing and try […]
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The entrepreneurial spirit starts early for many teenagers, but for most things like high school, college and social lives overpower the urge to start a business. But not every teenager. Wisebread takes a look at some incredibly successful young entrepreneurs, who all started their empires in their teens. Anand Lal Shimpi started AnandTech in 1997,
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Chicago Business: Jennifer Beall, 27, entered Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management determined to be an entrepreneur. That goal had stuck with her for years. Growing up in Austin, Texas, she was initially inspired by Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell. “But I ditched the high-tech part,” she says (although she did earn an undergraduate degree
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Monday we started a poll asking readers, according to a new study, what percentage of Americans actually use Twitter? 28 percent of you said that only 7% used Twitter. 23 percent chose 37%, 21 percent went with 12% and rounding out the group was 25% usage getting 15 percent of the votes and 53% Twitter
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Business Wire: Real Living, one of the nation’s most innovative national real estate franchisors, today announced that it is continuing its impressive growth through a highly successful, three-pronged approach: franchising companies, providing merger and acquisition assistance, and by delivering the necessary support to help local brokers grow their operations by opening new offices in major
‎Nation’s Restaurant News: Mrs. Fields Original Cookies Inc. has hired Timothy Casey, a veteran of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Starbucks chains, to serve as chief executive and president. Casey joins the company, which exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2008, as it restarts growth at its Mrs. Fields and TCBY brands following
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Ottawa Citizen: Gordon Reid, one of Ottawa’s most successful retail entrepreneurs, may be 76 but he still drops in on the competition and chats up their customers. Corporate spying is too strong a word, but he’s proud of the fact he’s trying to glean any shred of information that might give his Giant Tiger Stores
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photo credit: kevindooley It’s no surprise that small businesses around the country were really hurting due to the weak economy situation but it’s actually quite shocking just how bad the situation really was for them. A recent article posted on NY Times revealed that more than 400,000 business with employees numbers under 100 had to close
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Select Your Franchise: The new vertical agreements block exemption has just been published. It will come into force on the 1 June 2010 and franchisors have a transitional period until 31 May 2011 in respect of agreements already in force on 31 May 2010 to satisfy the conditions of the new block exemption. The great
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photo credit: h.koppdelaney Today while the dream of so many people is to become their own boss, create a great product, or simply open up their very own business of some sort and run their own company, so many of those dreamers are tied down by fear today, especially because of the economic situation we’re
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