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The “World Footprints” Podcast Shares Untold Stories for Socially-Conscious Travelers

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Since owning horses would be an expensive venture, they opted to create a travel agency. “We Despite their financial success, they decided to focus instead on their travel podcast that they created in 2007, and they closed their travel agency in 2009. The life coach posed some questions that helped the couple define their passions. “My

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How to Prepare for a Recession

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If you lived through the Great Recession (2007-2009), you might be experiencing some uncertainty right now as you wonder what the future will hold. Aim to have about six months of living expenses in an easy-to-access fund so that if you are laid off, you don’t have to rely solely on unemployment or other assistance programs.

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Startup Raises $20 Million to Build an Electronics Manufacturing Plant in San Francisco

Small Business Labs

It's one of the world's most expensive real estate markets and has some of the highest labor costs in the U.S.    We first noticed this trend in 2007. San Francisco is not a cheap place to locate a business, especially a manufacturing business. This is especially true for Bay Area firms. 

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Dog Walking Company Wag Raises $300 Million

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We've been writing about it's growing value since 2007.  We've also learned there's demand for pet products and services that we felt were very, very unlikely to be successful ( expensive dog parties being one of many examples). " We don't need to be convinced of the value of data.

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What Is Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Prior to 2007, few of us knew we wanted a device with a touch screen that could take calls, send messages, play music and offer multitudes of apps. If the competition can routinely out-price and out-service you, you might invest more time and expense. In some cases, consumers may not even know that they want something.

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The Top 5 Things That Were Wise Investments for My Home Business

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Why it was a wise choice: When I started in 2007, I owned a version of Microsoft Office which was installed on my computer. We often need to look at things more closely before we just write them off as more expensive. 4 Office 365 & Adobe Creative Cloud. They say you must spend money to make money, and it’s true.

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How to Name Your Business

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It’s far less expensive to name a company with a descriptive title and tagline,” Isen says. When we launched in 2007, we immediately looked at the keywords customers were using to search for what we offer—affordable wall art, finished by hand and sold exclusively online. Consider the type of name you’re after.

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