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Led by Retail, The Surge in New Business Applications Continues

Small Business Labs

Back in 2003-2007 80% of new retail trade business applications came from firms planning on hiring traditional employees.    But more work needs to be done to understand who the new applicants are, what their plans are, and how many will actually form new small businesses.   In April, only 33% did.  

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Gaby Natale, 3-time Daytime EMMY® winner, on the Power of Believing in Yourself

Success

She took a teaching job at the University of Texas to make ends meet, and in December of 2007 the two launched SuperLatina out of a carpet warehouse in Odessa, Texas with the help of a local TV station. Leaders, or pioneers, she insists, “come in all forms, shapes, sizes, ages, genders and also accents, because we can all sound different.

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

Success

And we thought, ‘How can we form a business?’” 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 My two passions I had were travel and horses.

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Employers No Longer Disqualify Those With Criminal Backgrounds

On The Job

From July 2007 to July 2008, more than 10,000 people left Las Vegas as the unemployment rate in the metro area skyrocketed to more than 12 percent and home prices plunged by 30 percent. It was a grim time. Thousands of workers who filled construction jobs left the state in search of a way to survive the Great Recession. Enter Jon Ponder.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

Success

Along with SUCCESS , these books have helped form the foundation for what personal development is today. Then, following an ownership change in 2007, SUCCESS named another woman to the post of chief editor: Deborah Heisz. “I In 1954, the magazine shifted yet again. Hill and W.

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Republic of Korea to join Horizon Europe programme

Workplace Insight

Association to the EU’s Horizon Europe is the closest form of international cooperation in science and technology between the EU and a non-EU country. Traditionally, this form of cooperation was offered by the Union to countries in its geographic proximity.

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Coworking is Disruptive Innovation

Small Business Labs

is formed in a niche market that may appear unattractive or inconsequential to industry incumbents, but eventually the new product or idea completely redefines the industry. When we first started tracking coworking back in 2007 we thought it had the potential to disrupt the commercial office space industry.

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