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Take Advantage of a New Trend: Big Business Looks to Small to Innovate

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An increasing number of big companies are hiring small businesses to help them develop innovative products, processes and procedures. Vuzit was launched in 2006, but in its first few years, did not bring in sufficient business to sustain itself. Managing a Business Operations Strategy' A Case in Point.

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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

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A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Personal credit ratings and collateral are also important.

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How to Start a Brewery

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For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

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Nowhere is this more striking than in matters involving intellectual property and the rights of content owners. Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. Ninkasi Brewing began in 2006 on a 15-barrel system and produced 1,650 barrels.

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12 Questions: Meet Dragan Lon?ar (Belgrade, Serbia)

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The eight is a pixel tree, picked a month ago here on the crowdSPRING by THE SUSTAINABILITY OPERATIONS SUMMIT, after being offered to dozen other green initiatives before, that at one point I started doubting the originality of it… but I was proven wrong. I returned to Belgrade in 2006 and my then boss dragged me into a watch shop.

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