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Time to re-energize - Starbucks closing for 3.5 hours for company wide training

BY Peter LucashTue Feb 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM

Starbucks’ store around the US will close today at 530PM local time to “conduct a nationwide education event, designed to energize partners and transform the customer experience.” Stores with evening hours will re-open at 9PM ...READ»

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Coca-Cola Acquires a Stake in Honest Tea

BY Saabira ChaudhuriTue Feb 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM

The best thing that ever happened to organic tea company Honest Tea or a slow but controlled brand implosion?Coca-Cola announced today that it is buying 40% of Honest Tea, the nation's largest selling brand of organic bottled tea. ...READ»

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Can you Cope With a Recession?

BY David JohnsonThu Jan 24, 2008 at 3:48 AM

What does it take to cope with a recession. I am not saying that there will be one, and over here in the UK I think our downside will be less painful than in certain other regions of the world. However my belief, and I have loads of ...READ»

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Ludacris -- Rapper Turned Entrepreneur?

BY Saabira ChaudhuriMon Jan 21, 2008 at 6:49 AM

When I overheard an excited murmur about how Chris Bridges was setting up a restaurant in Atlanta, I didn't think anything of it. Neither the name nor the act seemed worthy of much interest. A little while later the name popped up ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Britney's Sister Gets Pregnant

BY Chris DannenThu Dec 20, 2007 at 11:46 AM

Britney Spears' 16 year old sister, a Nickelodeon actress named Jamie-Lynn, is pregnant. Here's why you should care: the sisters, and their mother (who was slated for a book deal) are a textbook case of How To Ruin Your Personal ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: The Fuel Of The Future Is Not Wood

BY Chris DannenWed Dec 12, 2007 at 1:30 PM

Lest you be impressed with oil's potential energy, remember that it requires more and more coaxing to get it out of the ground and into power. Wood, on the other hand, is literally lying all over the place. That's the economic ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Thank Your Attention-Starved Spouse With A New Kind Of Neglect

BY Chris DannenWed Dec 5, 2007 at 2:39 PM

Let's say you run a web site, and it's so demanding that you run it at the cost of your marital well-being. Now you can say "thank you!" to your Main Squeeze for her patience by, you guessed it, fiddling with another web site. This ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Online Dating Gets More Vain?

BY Chris DannenFri Nov 16, 2007 at 11:41 AM

Online daters live and die by interpreting profile photographs. Sure, interests and hobbies are great, but when it comes to that crucial moment (to contact, or not to contact?) it's the photo that matters. Is it recent? Is it ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Go Ahead, Be A Delicious Curry

BY Chris DannenWed Nov 7, 2007 at 11:12 AM

Yeah, you read that right: curry, like what the British call a tasty stew you eat with rice. That's the advice of a Glasgow-based entrepreneur who styles himself the "King of Curry" in honor of his chain of popular Indian ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Is Marrying An Entrepreneur a Mistake?

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 31, 2007 at 12:40 PM

This morning I had the pleasure of disagreeing vehemently with an online column entitled "Pitfalls of Marrying an Entrepreneur." The column's thesis seems to be that spouses of entrepreneurs should be prepared to take a back seat to ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: What's With Chocolate?

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 24, 2007 at 12:49 PM

In the last few days, the world has seen a morass of chocolate-related news. The New Yorker has a story on the hippie-go-lucky founders of Dagoba Chocolate, the popularity of which has surged on a reemergence of interest in natural ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: "Obama Girl" Aims To Win Hearts & Minds

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 17, 2007 at 12:59 PM

According to The Hollywood Reporter (and who doesn't love a post that begins like that?), the creator of the viral-video site BarelyPolitical.com has accepted an offer for the purchase of his site by a bigger video startup. ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Not So Fast, China

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 10, 2007 at 1:09 PM

This morning the web is abuzz with some news out of Beijing. Apparently the Chinese index of entrepreneurial confidence (which I think needs an acronym) is still soaring in the third quarter of 2007. It registered no statistically ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Making Money On The Obese

BY Chris DannenWed Oct 3, 2007 at 12:04 PM

I'm currently reading economist Tyler Cowen's book, Discover Your Inner Economist, and the first chapter deals with the effectiveness of monetary incentives. Money, he argues, isn't always a useful tool in altering human behavior; ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Ashley Qualls Takes Manhattan

BY Chuck SalterThu Sep 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM

Set your Tivo. Ashley Qualls, the 17-year-old wunderkind and founder of Whateverlife.com, is scheduled to appear on The View on Friday (after Diane Sawyer). Since our story on Ashley appeared in the September issue, her already ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Bill Gross on Atoms and Bits

BY Chris DannenWed Sep 26, 2007 at 2:30 PM

CNN Money has an interesting Q&A with Bill Gross, the serial entrepreneur whose brain birthed startups like NetZero, CitySearch, eToys, and GoTo.com. While the interview questions aren't particularly hard-hitting, they do encourage ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: New Economy, New Safety Nets

BY Chris DannenWed Sep 19, 2007 at 11:22 AM

At the risk of adding to the morass of Facebook-related news coverage floating around the Web, it’s worth mentioning that Facebook announced this week that it is pairing with two prominent VC firms to establish fbFund, a $10 ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Direct Mail Isn't Dead Yet

BY Chris DannenWed Sep 12, 2007 at 8:00 AM

A new service called Leadstash is boasting that it can make professional-quality direct mail campaigns that are financially feasible for even the smallest of small businesses. The company claims a database of over 50 million American ...READ»

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C Is For Cookie

Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 12:58 PM

You said it, Cookie Monster. Cookies are a great way to teach kids about literacy. But did you know they are also a great way for the future businesswomen of America to learn about financial and economic literacy? By buying more ...READ»

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EntrepreneurshipWeek USA at Stanford

BY Lynne d JohnsonFri Feb 23, 2007 at 9:00 AM

via Guy Kawasaki The Kauffman Foundation is launching EntrepreneurshipWeek USA from February 23rd to March 3rd. The theme is "What's Your Big Idea? Take it On!" There will be educational programs around the country. Stanford is ...READ»

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Lessons from Behind the Red Velvet Rope

Wed Apr 5, 2006 at 4:50 PM

Writers search for stories in the darkest, most unlikely places. Here’s my Dr. Livingston moment from Monday night: I saw that a party girl linked in print to Lindsay Lohan almost as much as Wilmer Valderrama actually had some ...READ»

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It's Hard to Compete With "Free"

Fri Feb 3, 2006 at 3:58 PM

I can't remember who said, "writing's the price I pay for hanging out," but here's the bill I ran up last night hearing Craig's List CEO Jim Buckmaster field questions from a mix of American and British members of Glasshouse, a ...READ»

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Social Impact and Profit

BY Peter ReesMon Aug 8, 2005 at 9:30 PM

In a world where non-profits are urged to thrive using enterprise, and corporations are cajoled to build customer loyalty by demonstrating social responsibility... who's playing in the middle ground? One little operation of note is ...READ»

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Is Silicon Valley Back?

Thu Feb 24, 2005 at 12:27 PM

Caution: This post contains no actual facts. But so far this week I've had at least four well-placed people tell me--with an uncharacteristic quiver of excitement in their voices--that Silicon Valley is back. Not on its way back. ...READ»

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Freelance Friendly

BY Heath RowMon Oct 25, 2004 at 1:44 PM

Working Today's Freelancers Union recently surveyed its New York-based members about which companies treat freelancers best. Here are the top 10 results: Time Warner BBC Conde Nast Publications HBO MTV Networks Ogilvy & Mather The ...READ»

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