While that fact is encouraging, and while sales, too, are increasing for these same women-owned firms, sales growth of women-owned firms at 53 percent lags behind that of the national average at 71 percent. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners (1997, 2002, and 2007) with extrapolations into 2011 based on Gross Domestic Product. . MORE >>

In 2002, Hands-On Labs had $8,600 in sales. By 2005, sales nearly doubled to $600,000. The following year her company recorded more than $1 million in sales. million in sales this year. As applications for the 2012 Inc. For more information and to apply, go to here.) million in 2008 to $5.5 million in 2011. MORE >>

And skyrocketing sales for the new chicken sandwich BK was hawking. OK Go is an indy rock band formed in 2002, with three albums released since their inception. At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. That crazy chicken. MORE >>

In fact, after having done a little research, FreshDirect was started in 2002 and now 8 years later is delivering in New Jersey.  In other words, FreshDirect spent its time to build a repeatable sales and market entry model before moving on to other locations.  This is in stark contrast to WebVan which was the first online grocer.  MORE >>

The Standish Group, which analyzes IT projects, reported that in 2004 only 29% of IT projects succeeded, down from 34% in 2002. The Economist recently ran a wonderful piece on the sorry state of project management. Cost over-runs from original budgets averaged 56%, and projects on average took 84% more time than originally anticipated. MORE >>