Thrilling tales of entrepreneurs, in the Internet age, often sound similar: College kid concocts innovative idea. Pulls all-nighters to build a prototype. Writes business plan, begs and borrows for funding, eventually launches. The sequence of events has been a bit different for Jerome Boykin Jr., whose thriving company cleans parking lots outside big retail stores. [...]
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It’s not every day you get the chance to pick the brain of a man whose real-life rags-to-riches story was turned into a Hollywood movie starring one of America’s top actors. But the other day I had the opportunity to spend time with Chris Gardner, subject of the 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness, [...]
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A Bag Is Born: At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided “a huge beanbag thing” might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet [...]
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Are you craving vegetable pot pie? Or a can of soup with organically grown ingredients? Perhaps some nonprocessed pasta sauce? Amy’s Kitchen will deliver. Figuratively speaking. This is not Domino’s; rather, it’s a brand of frozen food product you can find in plenty of grocery stores nationwide.
Named after their baby daughter, it’s the brainchild of [...]
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You can easily take advantage of the lucrative eBay affiliate system in literally 3 minutes or less.
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You can utilize the huge inventory offered on eBay attacking both large and small niches.
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