Windsor Star: The votes are in and this year’s BDC Young Entrepreneur has been chosen. Zane Kelsall, founder of Two If By Sea Cafe in Dartmouth, N.S., stood out among the eight finalists for Anchored Coffee, an innovative project to launch the first roastery in Atlantic Canada that will buy all of its coffee direct […]
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Peninsula Daily: Student carpenters in the green building program at Peninsula College are working on their first mini-home. The students, who began work in February on the structure at the Lincoln Center in Port Angeles, are finishing its exterior this month and expect to complete the interior in the fall. They hope to sell the
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Hindu Business Line: A group of seven teenaged girls, who toiled as labourers in brick klins as child labourers in North 24 Parganas district, have stitched up a new life for themselves by going into the tailoring business. “The idea for a tailoring business came to us after we joined a vocational training programme a
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Divinecaroline.com: It’s safe to say Mary Kay Russell has been busy the last few years. As the mother of four boys, ranging in age from eight to sixteen, she has also created and launched an innovative new line of children’s and family self-expression games into the marketplace. She says at the age of forty-nine, she’s
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WatertownDailyTimes.com: Sandra L. Smith has always believed she has a destiny. It may have taken her a while, but the 65-year-old has used her life experiences and hobbies to start a business to brighten the lives of cancer patients with specialized skin-care and massage therapy. Located at the plaza outside Walmart at 21307 County Route
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Gulf Coast Business Review: When Jason Fry won the Florida Lottery in late 2007, he did exactly what you’d expect a lotto winner to do: He started spending it. He bought a new Cadillac Escalade and a few weeks later ferried his buddies in a limousine bus to the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, where he
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Huffington Post Canada (blog): Maxime Bernier, Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism) Critics of Alberta’s oil sands development have been saying for years that it should be scaled down, stopped, or at the very least highly taxed and heavily regulated to help contain its effects on the environment. A more recent criticism, popularized by
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BusinessDay: A new report from IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has identified a $37 billion opportunity for the private sector to improve energy services for people who live in relative poverty. The report “From Gap to Opportunity: Business Models for Scaling Up Energy Access,” was released at the United Nations Conference on
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to do a photo shoot with food? How do they make it look so good, so juicy, so fresh? And if you’ve ever tried to do a photo shoot on, say, some of your own cooking, then you know it’s not easy to make it all look good.
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750 KXL: 17 year old Jake Lorenz turned his invention for school into a legitimate business. He invented the Jake Rake three years ago for his grandfather, who needed an all in one tool to help pack dirt in his horse arenas. At the same time, Lorenz needed a project for a school invention fair.
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