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11-year-old entrepreneur uses his business skills in Shallowater
This is a very inspiring story and exactly the kind of things that a parent can do to encourage entrepreneurial thinking and mindset in young children. Eleven-year-old Levi Stinson is Shallowater’s youngest entrepreneur. He sells flavored ice treats in the summer, and he works just about every day from noon until 4 p.m. His business [...]
New Entrepreneurial Culture Taking Hold in New Orleans
IRVINE, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of new jobs and tens of millions invested in business development in New Orleans, Entrepreneur takes a first-hand look at the city’s emerging entrepreneurial culture. The August issue’s coverage finds New Orleans to be another example of how entrepreneurship remains essential to economic recovery, particularly as troubled [...]
Free AK-47 for every pick-up truck
Max Motors, a Missouri, car dealer, is offering a voucher for a free AK-47 for every pick-up truck bought in August. Auto sales have been absolutely clobbered–down 28% year over year–so the government, dealers, and auto makers are coming up with all sorts of inventive ways to attract business. Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors, [...]
China suicide puts spotlight on secretive Apple culture
Apple Inc said it was awaiting results from an investigation into the death of a worker in China, after media reports said the man killed himself on learning he was suspected of leaking company secrets. The case puts the spotlight on Apple, whose public face as maker of the wildly successful iPhone contrasts with its [...]
Stealth Starbucks: Seattle-based coffee giant opening neighborhood shops in disguise
How’s this a good idea? You will still be selling the exact same things that caused customers go somewhere else in the first place. A Seattle outlet of the 16,000-store coffee behemoth is being rebranded without visible Starbucks identifiers, as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. Two other stores in Starbucks’ native Seattle will follow suit, [...]
Stores offering discounts based on location
Banana Republic, Wal-Mart and Home Depot are among the retailers that are localizing their sale prices to appeal to the demographics of a store’s location. It’s a deliberate move to tailor prices to fit local demand and inventory — right down to the individual store level, according to the Wall Street Journal. For companies like [...]
10 States With Housing Jobs on the Way
That is how much the Obama Administration has distributed to 25 states under a new program designed to jumpstart the stalled construction of rental housing developments around the country. The government hopes the program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will create thousands of jobs for contractors, engineers, architects and general [...]
