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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… Markets. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Marketing Jobs.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

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. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Ceedo Technologies. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

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But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. Like mass market healthcare delivery--I literally couldn't find anybody that I thought was doing it the way I thought it should be done, and I decided that. ER : Really smart.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.