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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

Success

She built a career in the legal profession, first as a stenographer and then as a paralegal. In addition to raising money via traditional methods, they’ve also opened a for-profit boutique called Janice Vaincre Boutique to raise money via the sale of clothes and other items. The goal is to break ground in 2022.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

Success

My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. By the time I started needing deodorant, I could legally drive.) My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack. Back to the beach.

Learning 279
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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

You see for yourself new styles of clothing, where young professionals are shopping, which brands are popular in different places. You’ll also see up close how politics or various laws affect an area’s economy, like legal marijuana in Colorado or legal prostitution in Amsterdam.

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Logo Lift – 5 Signs Your Logo Needs a Facelift

Small Business CEO

In October 2010, facing a slide in their share price, the clothing retailer ditched their elegant white-lettered, blue square logo in favor of a new model that switched the ‘a’ and ‘p’ to lower case and shrunk the blue box to barely overlap the ‘p.’ Just ask Gap. ’ Gap customers roared in disapproval.

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How to Write Without Colour

Men With Pens

I’m Steff, a legally blind writer and blogger. I was bullied because of my eyesight, because I was a geek, because I liked weird clothes and loud music and stooped when I walked and never said the right thing. How do you network and expand your business when you can’t make eye contact? Welcome to my world.

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

The Small Business Blog

A premium hotline providing legal advice. A clothes-sharing website for high-value items such as shoes. A company which takes your dead electronic equipment and smashes it until it becomes modern art! A café for aspiring filmmakers to congregate and show their work to receive feedback. A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants.

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It's all in how you feel

Laughing all the Way to Work

I recall the first day of school feeling so smart in my new clothes as I proudly walked to meet my friends. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. When I put those new runners on I felt I could run faster than Ive ever run before. School will be back in full swing soon.