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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. Women of all ages are launching businesses.

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

Small Business Labs

  Lafayette, CA, a small San Francisco suburb has created a restaurant cluster called  Restaurant Row.    Lafayette, CA, a small San Francisco suburb has created a restaurant cluster called  Restaurant Row.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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Yahoo CEO on Local Content

Small Business Labs

"  She is also known as a tough, demanding and skilled manager who did an impressive job as CEO at Autodesk prior to talking over Yahoo. Bartz: They want to see more local content – things within a five to 10 mile radius that people want to know what's going on, like coupons and restaurants.

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Street Food Gets Real

Small Business Labs

  A good idea for any business, Hartman uses the example of Skillet (see their Airstream mobile restaurant on the right), who got the idea for their popular "bacon jam" from a customer.   They listen to their customers.  Bacon jam sounds disgusting to me.  Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

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Urban Farming Continues to Expand

Small Business Labs

  Restaurants and others use it to source local food; local farmers use it sell product.  The fees are quite reasonable - full service packages start at $695 per season. While on the topic of urban farming, I want to mention Local Dirt.    It is an eBay-like website where you can find, buy and sell local food. 

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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You can’t always control the flow of the big questions, but you can manage the small ones. president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association told The New York Times in 2011. Don’t pressure yourself to keep it up: Learn to manage it. Colloquially it means reaching 4 p.m. Don’t decide hungry. Get plenty of rest.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

Men With Pens

Friends and former colleagues, many of whom are either managers or are on the entrepreneurial path, often come to me needing help for their business. By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even. I accepted a PR invitation to be quoted as a restaurant marketing expert in an upcoming print book.