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Striking a New Chord of Career Success in Consulting

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Tom originally went to school for music at Berklee College of Music in Boston (not the only consultant in the music scene ). When he wanted to return to living on land, he spent a year self-producing and recording his own album back in Boston. READ MORE: 3 Tips for Effective Communication & Project Success.

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Market For Distributed Farms That Grow Popular Fungi ‘Mushrooms’ In New York

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When you make it super easy to farm something, it becomes a whole new business opportunity for a community. Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. The Mushroom Market. And, of course, he wants to grow more items than just mushrooms.

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Smart Watches, Run Hubs And New Balance’s Retail Reset Button

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Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. and identified five or six influencer markets that we wanted to penetrate.

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The Main Street Rescue That Wasn’t (And Still Isn’t)

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What happens if Main Street becomes less a proving ground for smaller businesses — born of, and serving, local communities — and more a collection of larger firms, well-capitalized, but already enjoying competitive advantages? The question is what happens if loans go sour — which means, of course, that banks get dinged if they do.

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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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That is not cheap, of course, but it doesn’t sound so bad – until one realizes that the problem with averages is that they are, well, averages. 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. Co-living opens you up to an instant community and connections. Convents have been closing.

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. Expensive Cities.

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