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Silicon Valley Is Losing Its Luster With Millennials

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Silicon Valley is losing its luster with young adults, as recent polling shows millennials are gearing up to leave the San Francisco area at an increased rate. Reuters noted that other cities around the country including Boston, Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina may be attractive to millenials.

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Accounts Of Millennial Sobriety May Be Oversold

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Have millennials started starving a segment of commerce in a socially positive way? Added to the list of things millennials are killing — along with homeownership, the institution of marriage and diamond jewelry — is apparently alcohol. Folks in the millennial generation have maybe a better sense of balance. Data from U.S.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Is Booming — Here’s Their Top Concern

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As millennials continue to grow their presence in the small business (SMB) community, the dynamics of SMB finance are also changing. According to some experts , millennial small business owners no longer accept mediocre or sub-par services from their financial providers.

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Reimagining The Bar Experience Without The Booze 

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But even if Americans are not quite forswearing their drinking ways entirely, the emerging conventional wisdom is that Americans, particularly millennials and Gen Z (the oldest members of which are now 23 and legally old enough to drink), are drinking differently than they ever had.

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Bank Associations Take Lead Energizing Next-Gen Bankers

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Groups in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and elsewhere are stepping up efforts to create programs and conferences dedicated to younger bankers, including millennials.

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Wu-Tang Financial Is Here — Finally

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He is very focused on what the youth and millennials are interested in. They would like to build cryptocurrency ATMs to add to the “some” that are said to be operational in North Carolina. However, remember that Wu-Tang is for the children,” said Westbrook. “He All ten of them.

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Retail Pulse: IKEA To Open ‘Planning Studio’ In NYC; Pizza Hut Will Acquire QuikOrder

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Yet the move comes as IKEA has curtailed its planned new stores, having canceled planned locations in North Carolina, Arizona and Tennessee amid a shift to eCommerce. CityLab , too, reported that the company’s market research found those who live in the Big Apple continue to like to shop in stores for furniture.

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