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Kelp Food Is Making Waves in Restaurants and Supermarkets—and Helping Conservation Efforts

Success

Making kelp food mainstream One of the longest-running kelp-reneurs is Atlantic Sea Farms, which launched in 2009 in Maine as the first commercially viable seaweed farm in the United States. The patty is now sold online and in over 800 grocery stores and 30 restaurants across the U.S. We just want to get seaweed to the people.”

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Small Business Closure Scenarios

Small Business Labs

Based on an industry by industry analysis (1), our base case estimate is 21% of U.S.    On average about 8% of small businesses closed each year between 1990 and 2015 and 10% closed at the height of the Great Recession in 2009. .   employer small businesses will close in 2020 (2) (3). 

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Want to Change Career? What Does It Take?

Job Advice Blog

A career change is a radical change–for example, an executive with a finance background who buys a restaurant, or a manager at AT&T, a very well-known communications company, who shifts into managing an adult community or a nursing home. Let’s make sure we understand that I’m not referring to a job change.

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Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Competition analysis is not only important when you’re launching a business but it’s important not to become complacent and keep a watchful eye on the competition. Steve Said on January 26th, 2010 at 3:38 pm I often find that CI is overlooked by small businesses especially regarding restaurants for example.

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Raphael Dobbin is not going to help me loose any weight soon with his idea of a West African restaurant, but he was going to offer me free fruit as a dessert option for healthier living. Emmanual Opanuga is opening a shoe store chain , focusing on customer care while understanding the price pressures in this business.

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Enjoy the Little Things

The Marq

Photo Credit: srboisvert Posted by Arash Sayadi on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Topic: Motivational 2comments: GolferNewb said. Or this one time, at a Persian restaurant named Darya. December 18, 2009 11:16 AM Arash Sayadi said. I've not studied psychology enough to give any meaningful analysis of your point.

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Dave Cairns SVP of CBRE |Unlocking Urban Potential: Repurposing Office Spaces for Sustainable Development

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And so I then carried on after college in 2009 for almost four years, competing in professional poker at a high level. And there’s as much likelihood that I’ll be meeting someone and doing some work over in Dallas, because I’m in Fort Worth in Dallas this week, working in their office or maybe at a restaurant.

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