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It was 2010. I lost my confidence. Buoyed by this success, I decided to go for the biggest deal of my life: the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. On January 15, 2010, I was expecting a delivery of 17,000-plus tickets, and I had paid a deposit of $3 million for them. I was waiting for the most important call of my life.

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In 2010, after losing her fashion design job during The Great Recession, Kristine Deer founded the activewear brand K-DEER. K-DEER was one of the first brands to make and market printed activewear in 2010 before it became an established retail department. “I Taking a leap. I had nothing to lose besides my ego,” Deer says.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

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The US Talent Pool: Welcome Back to a Seller’s Market

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During times of high demand, as we are seeing right now in the US, the labor market tilts in favor of the ‘suppliers’ – or individual workers. But then organizations rapidly reversed course and by May of 2010 we were back in the 1.3% before starting to recover at the beginning of 2010. and now to 1.1%.

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

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Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 28, 2010 As regular readers of my blog you will know that I am passionate about small businesses, and want to see the awful mortality rate of small businesses fall dramatically. You ask a question, I answer! Thanks for your comment.

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