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Nonprofit Supports Community Entrepreneurs Amid Pandemic

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“Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I Lowell-Lawrence was the site of EforAll’s first program, which launched in 2012. They don’t have VC funds.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. In 2012, 20 of Salzberg’s friends beta-tested the product,” the article stated. An initial funding round of $3 million came from Salzberg’s old firm, Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. In 2012, 20 of Salzberg’s friends beta-tested the product,” the article stated. An initial funding round of $3 million came from Salzberg’s old firm, Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Finding Falafel Success On Main Street

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Years later, when he found an opportunity to open the restaurant’s first franchise, D’Alessio was ecstatic about bringing the taste he loved during his college days to Boston. He opened his first location in Somerville’s Davis Square in 2012. “I The restaurant brought falafel to Boston in a whole new style.

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Building A Better Digital Bridg For Customers

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Founded in 2012 in Los Angeles, the digital marketing firm works to bridge (hence the name) the gap so that the various communications don’t fall into the void. “We Boston-based readers know — and likely love — Papa Gino’s, a regional pizza chain that had developed a serious defection problem. Which is where Bridg enters the picture.

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The Stats of Summer

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Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. Since The Times’ definitive article on the high costs of summer in 2012, the cost of summer has gone up quite a lot.

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How Big Tech Is Finally Tackling Cybersecurity

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Facebook, for example, disclosed that an unprecedented data breach in September 2018 exposed the social media accounts of up to 90M users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account. But the company is not alone. Confirm.io The Controversies.

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