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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. 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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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. I haven’t been to the desert in Australia, but it’s about the equivalent of that. I have a house in Brisbane, Australia, and I own my car, etc. I don’t know if you’ve been there before.

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Touch Down – Super Bowl hits & misses

Start Up Blog

In the US, electric cars are 9% of sales, yet they are getting close to 100% of the attention. In Australia alone, this install market is a AUD$40 billion opportunity (20m cars @ $2000 per charger). By my reckoning, we’ll all be driving electric long before government regulations make it mandatory.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. With the strike of the pandemic, our leads and sales accelerate ten times fold the pre-COVID. Photo Credit: James Parsons.