den.m bar is a custom blue jean shop in Los Angeles, California. They have turned jean buying into a premium customer experience with a user-friendly online shop that walks the customer through the process of creating their own pair of custom jeans from start to finish. Starting with fabric selection, customers can choose not only […]
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Every small business owner can attest that location plays a big part in success. In this economy, an off-the-beaten-path location could make a bad scenario worse for store owners. Thousands of small businesses face the dilemma of being in a location that is not working, yet they are bound by a lease which is difficult
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Bill Bradley launched America’s Best Franchises in 2005. I recently asked him how he got into the business. Post 9/11, after owning a venture capital firm for more than 10 years, I decided to investigate the purchase of a franchise. I had vast experience in doing due diligence on a variety of business concepts but
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A couple Stanford Business School grads have started a company in the Bay Area to deliver lunch to office workers. The company, Eat Club, was founded a year ago and now serves lunch to about 3,000 office workers per week from South San Francisco to northern San Jose. Their secret sauce: The company only delivers
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The NY Times up a really long, and very interesting article about dollar stores. The long quote below deals with operations, but the article touches on numerous aspects of the biz: In Hamilton’s view, the secret of a good dollar store is an obsessive manager who can monitor 8,000 to 10,000 items, constantly varying pop
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Think of Lydon Baty as the modern version of the bubble boy. Although his body is usually safely at home, to guard against germs his bodies can’t handle, his mind isn’t trapped there. It travels around by robot. Not literally. We’re not there yet. But Lydon has a robot surrogate who goes to school for
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If you’re a Barefoot Contessa fan like me, you know that she used to a work for the Gerald Ford White House. Ever wondered how she moved one from that to cookbooks and cooking shows? But Garten eventually fled government work for the same reason so many have since: gridlock. “I was working on exciting
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Buddy and Gemma are perfect glamour models. They don’t complain, need a make-up check and aren’t vain. But sometimes the slobber can get in the way of a good shot. The two golden retrievers were the first models to pose for Donna Cameron-Prosser in her new business, Just Dogs Photography. With more
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Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.
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9News.com: No one in Granite Falls is old enough to remember the exact year the stand went up, but sometime between the ‘Roaring ’20s’ and the Great Depression the corner of 7th and Prentice started popping. “It’s been there as long as I can remember and that’s a long time ago,” laughed Jim Finnes, one
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