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Back to the Roots Is Making Organic Gardening More Accessible for Everyone

Success

Back in 2009, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Vélez were seniors in their last semester at UC Berkeley. After growing a few test buckets, they received some local support from restaurant owner and pioneer of the farm-to-table movement, Alice Waters, who loved the taste of their mushrooms.

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

The Small Business Blog

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants. VB, Stefan Emma Said on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm Hi, I like your ideas !!

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes : Move over restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. You want the whole tree."

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The Rise of Gourmet Food Trucks

Small Business Labs

      I even had to cheat a bit on the chart to get the 83,000 hits in 2008-2009 to show up.    - Social Media, which allows food trucks to create an audience and keep them up to date on their location, new menu items, etc.  - Local food , which is part of the new localism movement.

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Hundreds Give Value for FREE

Make or Break Moments

Starting with the generous sponsors: Avitae, Nickles Bakery , Stancato’s Italian Restaurant and the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center. My session was called Create a Customer-Focused Social Media Strategy. I have the slide presentation at SlideShare and the handouts with audio explanation at PolicyforSocial Media.

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Linchpin Meet Ups Connect the Globe in One Evening

Make or Break Moments

The purpose? To talk about Seth’s book Linchpins and what it means to make yourself an artist in your field and consequently indispensible. Talk about a make or break moment. I hosted the local meet up in my community and eight people signed up.

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Marcelita's – The Reunion Band and Readers

Make or Break Moments

I have to be honest, I don’t go for the food. I only go when The Reunion Band is playing. One of the band members, Jim Gray, is a family friend and the band plays all the classic rock songs you love to sing. So I am sitting there sipping my drink after last call when the waitress brings the bill.