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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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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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Restaurants can add incentive to a slow night, or pull back on promotions during full bookings. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward. The operative word is control. “I

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Physical Footprints, Grocery Gains

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Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville . It was a big week for Amazon’s expanding list of physical retail shops in major metros this week, as the firm announced it is set to open an Amazon Books location in Nashville, as well as an Amazon 4-Star store in Boston.

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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. Operating Location: Boston, MA. BILL GURLEY. JEFF JORDAN.

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Reading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data

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Brown explained that the genesis for the PredictHQ offering sprang from running a car rental booking platform — where seeing the peaks and troughs in demand across the globe led to retroactive reflection that certain events, such as concerts or school holidays, had influenced such swings.

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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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