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5 Big Problems Faced By Small-To-Medium US Manufacturers

YoungUpstarts

The smaller businesses include job shop manufacturers, commodity product manufacturers, and high-tech manufacturers. Job shop manufacturers focus on things like machining, commodity manufacturers on things like houseware products, and high-tech manufacturers on things like medical devices. A small customer base.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

This incorporates a socially beneficial mission with a manufacturing arm that produces a useful product for its targeted demographic, while also directly providing employment to members of that demographic. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. Maryland was the first U.S. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Thanks to a partnership with the United Way and IBM’s former Lenovo production department, Latinitas received its first laptop and was able to launch the first and only magazine made for and by young Latinas online and an accompanying media and tech education program in East Austin schools and community centers.

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Founder Interview: RedMane Technology’s Tony Lakier

The Startup Magazine

Here is more of his story: Describe your product/service in 10 words or less: Problem solving. The State of Louisiana was our first major win. In 2000, Louisiana gave our five-person company (at that time) a multimillion-dollar contract to implement a mission-critical system. Tony Lakier. Technology is just one of our tools.

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Like Selling Ice to Eskimos?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE : John Burke: Louisiana Caviar Company. The Louisiana Caviar Company , founded by John Burke, sells its product to customers in an unlikely foreign market: Russia. Louisiana Caviar Company harvest its caviar from bowfin fish in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Swamp, which is the largest wetland in the U.S.

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Helping Hands: U.S. Resources For Import/Export Startups

YoungUpstarts

They also write up a customized market analysis and report that’s tailored to your product or service. Once that’s done, you choose your target country and the specialists contact importers, distributors, consumers, and end-users as well as manufacturers of comparable products. Based in Louisiana, and using stainless steel from U.S

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A New Idea for Black Friday

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The harder news, like the protests at Walmart in Ontario, Louisiana, got a lot less air time. We need to be making high value add products, and lots more of them. While I have much sympathy for the protestors in Louisiana, I don’t have much hope for their getting better pay. Of course, the protests are the bigger story.

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