Venture Beat: Everyone loves talking about Twitter’s business model – because there isn’t one yet, and they’ll keep talking about it until there is one. But it’s becoming more clear that while a business model is of course important, Twitter is perhaps the perfect example of a company that can afford to take its time […]
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Small Business Trends: Last month was a very bad month for jobs; the economy lost 533,000 jobs, the worst monthly decline since 1974. People often talk about the importance of entrepreneurs as job creators in this country. So I got to thinking: how much additional entrepreneurial activity would have been necessary to avoid these job
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About.com: Over 500,000 Americans lost their jobs in November of 2008, which has become the biggest one-month drop since 1974. Experts say that the nation has lost 1.9 million jobs since the recession began, and predict that 2 million more will vanish in 2009. These are very scary statistics. If you consider yourself an entrepreneur
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PR-Inside.com: Sagittarius Brands, parent company of Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen and Del Taco, has named industry veteran Jim Lyons as chief development officer. In this role, Lyons will be directly responsible for Del Taco’s development functions including real estate, construction and franchise recruitment as well as franchise operations, reporting to Nick Shepherd, chairman and CEO
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College Mogul: Are you able to pitch your company in under a minute, or even thirty seconds? Well, you should be able to do it in one sentence. The easiest way to do this is to compare your model to another one (or two if it is a combination) that people already know and understand.
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Franchising.com: The Forzani Group Ltd., Canada’s largest retailer of sporting goods is proud to announce its partnership with Hockey Canada. For years, The Forzani Group’s banners have been synonymous with hockey in Canada and now the company is taking its support for Canada’s beloved sport a step further, as the Official Sporting Goods Retailer of
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CNNMoney.com: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. (KKD) is getting smaller in more ways than one. While once again warning it may shutter a “significant” number of stores, Krispy Kreme said on Thursday’s earnings call that operators in New York and Phoenix have opened smaller stores with lower labor, supply and other costs, ones that could be
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Economic Times: The Home retail arm of Gujarat Heavy Industrial Chemicals (GHCL) is eyeing an Italian home furnishing brand, even as it is striving to keep the UK retail operations of Rosebys afloat. The company, that had earlier acquired Rosebys (UK) and Dan River (US), is likely to sign up an Italian home textile brand
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Franchising.com: The Cary Group, LLC, announced today that their newest product, The Telamercial, has been launched by the Columbia, Maryland-based, national sign franchisor Signs By Tomorrow, Inc. The Telamercial is a low-cost, self-contained, online multi-media presentation that links to a company’s existing web site or acts as a standalone online presentation. It brings together compelling
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Franchising.com: Clockwork Home Services, Inc. (Clockwork), a leading provider of home services, today announced its promotion of Bryan Richards to director of franchise development. Richards will oversee sales and marketing for Clockwork’s franchise development team. Richards joined Clockwork’s Mister Sparky America’s Onâ€time Electrician division in Atlanta, GA, in 2003. He has since served as franchise
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