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Small Business Spotlight: Just Add Cooking

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Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week? Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region.

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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. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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How Darwinian Thinking Keeps Ice Cream Shop Afloat In Off-Season

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Petryk, who said he was bullied ruthlessly as a kid from the third grade to high school, views his chain of Boston-based ice cream stores as safe havens that he wants to share with his community. “I I got beat up and knocked down, my books thrown away or flushed down the toilet a few times.”. I was always a weirdo,” said Petryk. “I

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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Department stores, sporting goods stores, specialty retail, jewelry, books and music — the list goes on and the shift online more dramatic by the year. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Starbucks was a single storefront that didn’t even brew coffee back in 1971.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes. Housing supply is dire nationally, with the US reportedly staring down a housing shortage of 7.3M

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. We have enjoyed helping you find great restaurants, access tough-to-book reservations and discover local chef events.”

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