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Walk into BabyCakes NYC, a vegan bakery in New York City, and you feel as if you have entered a sweets shop right out of Valley of the Dolls. The place is packed with Nancy Sinatra records, Pyrex-style plates, and other ’60s memorabilia. But though the vibe is decidedly mod, the business is very 2008. [...]
A KEY initiative aimed at encouraging young people to launch and run their own businesses took centre stage at a European conference. The Youth Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Strategy in Wales (YES) was showcased at the European Commission’s Conference on the European Charter for Small Enterprises in Slovenia. YES was selected as one of five good [...]
Earlier this year, Simon Rix completed a graduate program in business coaching and earned certification as an ActionCOACH, part of the world’s number one business coaching company. Now, Rix has opened his coaching practice serving clients in New South Wales from an office in the Sydney metropolitan area. As an ActionCOACH, Rix will offer the [...]
Back in 1998 or so I read a book that really shifted my thinking about small business and the Internet. Called Striking it Rich.com (now out of print), the book profiled 23 “incredibly successful websites you probably never heard of.” One of those sites was AsktheBuilder.com. The book profiled the site and its owner, [...]
Stop dreaming about your idea, most people dream and dream about their idea until somebody else thinks it also and makes it happen! There is no startup fairy so stop waiting and go and take MASSIVE ACTION! 1. Somebody’s product is going to “go viral” this year. Someone is also going to win the [...]
Don’t even think about starting a business or in fact anything if you are guilty of the following: 1. Do you ever ask “Why should I try to be successful?” 2. Do you consider money dirty , un-cool , or pretentious? 3. Do you have negative opinions about wealthy people? 4. Are you afraid [...]
2050 Britain could have hundreds of thousands of millionaires if more people sign up to pensions saving schemes. Impossible? In fact, all it takes is £300 per month. If a couple aged 25 both start saving £300 per month, then by the time they reach the official retirement age of 68, they will have [...]
The reason why you aren’t a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it’s because you aren’t earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you [...]
When life throws you some failure, turn it around! Florist Moya Topsom was upset when she lost her job as manageress at a florist in Wymondham, but she then branched out on her own. The 21-year-old had been working at Jasmine florists for three and a half years when the owners shuttered the business because [...]
Shaun Fanning, founder of Napster, Boston University “My roommate had a bunch of friends from back home come visit. They asked him how he got this insane music collection — he was particularly into obscure rap–and there was no easy way to describe how to do it. It was pretty remarkable how difficult it [...]
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