he nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of t ...
Posted Sunday, July 14th 2013 at 3:32PM
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Popular social-review site Yelp is in court once again over alleged extortion and review manipulating now that a group of business owners is attempting to appeal a ruling that was dismissed in federal court two years ago.
In 2011, a U.S. District ...
Posted Sunday, July 14th 2013 at 3:30PM
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Q: What's the advantage of a closed social network?
A: All businesses depend on information flow. When employees have the information they need, they make better decisions, save time, feel connected and are more productive. A closed social network ...
Posted Sunday, July 14th 2013 at 3:28PM
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When my team launched Boomerang last August, we thought it was a sure thing -- until we knew it wasn't.
Our goal was to create a consumer-gifting platform that would let Facebook friends give each other real-world gifts from the best local busines ...
Posted Sunday, July 14th 2013 at 3:27PM
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ranchising and food: They go together like peanut butter and jelly. Many of the oldest, largest and most successful franchises in the U.S. and around the world are restaurants or other food-related businesses. In fact, 122 of the companies on our ann ...
Posted Sunday, July 14th 2013 at 3:11PM
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Joe Chamberlain says he can’t build homes fast enough to keep up with demand. The founder of Caprock Custom Construction Inc. in Rockwall, Texas, has yet to break ground on any of the three houses he sold in May and June.
That’s “an excellent ...
Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 11:28PM
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Investing in housing south of the border has changed dramatically over the past few years as the United States has worked its way out of a recession after the financial crisis, which began in late 2008.
The steals that were to be had between 2009 ...
Posted Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 at 11:16PM
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The Ouya, a similar device running a modified version of the Android operating system, has been released following its highly successful Kickstarter campaign, the second best in the crowd-funding website’s history. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) will also re ...
Posted Monday, July 1st 2013 at 10:03AM
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China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom
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An oil refinery in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, in which China has a stake. China has poured money and workers into Iraq.
By TIM ARANGO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Pub ...
Posted Thursday, June 27th 2013 at 11:25AM
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This is Sinopec’s second buy in the field in Africa’s second-largest oil producing country. In 2011, it bought a 5 percent stake in the field from Courbevoie, France-based Total SA (NYSE:TOT). Sinopec says the field has a proven reserve of 533 mi ...
Posted Thursday, June 27th 2013 at 10:29AM
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