I’ve wanted a standing desk for a very long time, because standing desks are cool. This is funny, because a couple decades ago, my first job in high school was to answer the phone and enter orders into the computer at the local Pizza Hut franchise. Looking back, it wasn’t just the fact that I […]
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Ever wish you had real office space for just a day or 30? Just imagine how many people wish they could escape the home office, even if it was only for a short period of time. Oficio, a new office rental space in Boston, hopes to tap into those people and give them the perfect
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What’s in a name? Well when it comes to money, lots of things apparently. There is a vast array of currencies in use across the planet and if you are a frequent business traveller, crossing time zones and borders day after day, getting to grips with them all is no mean feat. But even within
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McDonald’s is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, with about 68 million customers daily in 119 countries across 35,000 restaurants.
So have you ever wondered what it would be like to own one? I mean…who hasn’t! Here is an interview with one franchisee with all the skinny.
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Every time the price of gas spikes, so does everyones interest in bicycling instead of driving. The Commercial Appeal reports that a company dedicated to the great outdoors, Outdoors Inc., is ready to prove to the world that cycling is back in Memphis by starting a bicycle shop in their town. Is this an opportunity
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It’s a sad fact that over 90 per cent of small businesses fail within the first two years, and the primary reason for the majority of these is because of a failure to plan correctly. The key to launching a successful new business is in the initial proposal stages and eventual execution.  You may
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My name is John Accardi. I’m 25 years old, I live in Washington, DC and 5 months ago, I dropped out of the Neuroscience PhD program at Georgetown University. Not only was I on a full scholarship, but I was being paid to attend. So why did I drop out? It’s very simple. I didn’t
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If you think farmers only grow things like apples, and oranges and peaches, you have no idea. Tablet Magazine (A New Read on Jewish Life) has up an interesting article about a farmer in California central valley — not far from me — who grows etrogs. An etrog is a yellow citron used by Jews
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When most people think of a surgeon, they do not imagine a man putting together a unique cigar box guitar. However, that is exactly who Kirk Withrow is. A patient with a sinus infection introduced him to the instrument during his residency at the University of Alabama Birmingham about 11 years ago and gave him
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In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their
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