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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

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The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. So it will have to go its own way with the new institute to be called the Roux Institute after Silicon Valley investor David Roux, its patron.

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Warehouses Aren’t Keeping Up With eCommerce

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CBRE has found that most warehouses constructed prior to 2005 had low ceilings, tight space and uneven flooring — issues that are not easy to fix through a renovation. are in areas such as New Jersey, Boston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The average age of a warehouse in the U.S. However, some of the oldest warehouses in the U.S.

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Paytronix Picks Payments Industry Veteran Porter For Board

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Founded in 2005, the FinTech AffiniPay now processes over $6 billion annually on behalf of 150,000 professionals, according to a news release announcing the appointment. Amy is an exceptional entrepreneur,” said Nick Cayer, partner at Boston-based Great Hill Partners. For its part, Newton, Mass.-based

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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. Foodler launched in Boston in 2005. Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people. The Eat24 deal closed last week on Oct.

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Kombucha, Bingeing, Legos And Wine: How We’ll Keep Busy In Quarantine

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The phrase has since been uttered quite a few times, by many, many sports luminaries: Magic Johnson, Nancy Kerrigan, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 2004 World Series Boston Red Sox. He was, apparently, actually going to Disney World and wanted us all to know.

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How Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics

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And that was exactly what Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos predicted when he first launched Amazon Prime, which offers the two-day shipping perk: “Amazon Prime takes the effort out of ordering: no minimum purchase and no consolidating orders,” Bezos wrote in a letter posted on the company’s website in 2005.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. While Lin left the company in 2005, it was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Education: University of Pennsylvania (MBA & MA), Boston University (BS).