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What Factors Should You Consider When Comparing Franchise Opportunities?

Up and Running

While opening a fitness center or restaurant could easily require an initial investment of a quarter-million dollars or more, you may be able to start a mobile franchise for somewhere in the range of $30,000 to $40,000. Post-termination covenants. Initial investments vary widely between types of franchises.

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Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]

This is going to be BIG.

Remember the covenant that the music industry used to have with the consumer? It was a friend on Twitter that reminded me that my mobile data feed might go out before cell service would, and that switching from Google Voice to regular SMS for texts might be a good idea. Forget new business models for journalism. It’s done.

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