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So [Glynn Lloyd]'s staff created a software package that allows the schools to track the meals and bill the appropriate government agencies for a fraction of what any existing software would cost. Now students at Lloyd's client charter schools simply swipe a card recording their purchase of the meals and their transactions are recorded into a web database.
I've always been interested in how food is grown and distributed and how it's retailed," he recalls. "The other thing I've been interested in is creating wealth and opportunities.
"Basically, you do everything," he comments on his company's start-up phase. "You don't have a lot of money to bring in people."
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Shelby County Commissioner and mayoral candidate J.W. Gibson II describes himself as an entrepreneur running diverse business operations, and one of them is a company that contracts with the Tennessee Lottery to print tickets.
The odds of him being selected county mayor on Monday by fellow commissioners, Gibson believes, are a whole lot better than those of someone winning the lottery.
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Ron Feinstein has started half a dozen businesses in his lifetime: a washer equipment business, a smoke detector installation business, a real estate ...
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* Spoonful of Comfort Featured on Opening Page of the "Handcrafted" Category of June 2010 Annual Cover Story
* Company Enables Customers to Send Com...
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It has taken Mike Sherman at least six weeks to set up this meeting. In a room at The Home Depot's Atlanta headquarters, he and his sales manager lay ...
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A conversation with Dr. Bernhoff Dahl can be exhausting, exhilarating, inspiring, motivating - oh, and add in a touch of feeling self-conscious afterward.
Anyone who talks to Dahl can't help but wonder how he seems to have the energy and drive to do all that he does. After all, there are only so many hours in the day, right?
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Investment in research that builds upon the area's strengths could make Milwaukee the next Palo Alto, Calif., or upstate New York, according to an economist and an entrepreneur who spoke at a business forum Thursday.
The entrepreneur was philanthropist Michael J. Cudahy, who co- founded a Milwaukee medical devices company that sold to General Electric Co. for more than $800 million in 1998.
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QA I have six product ideas and designs patent pending. But whether it's because of a lack of connections, or trust issues with certain companies, my ...
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Frans Johansson, author of "The Medici Effect," contends the actions that spawned the Italian Renaissance - that remarkable and extraordinary explosion of art, architecture, science and philosophy - can be replicated and applied to the creative challenges we all face today.
Johansson, an author, speaker and entrepreneur, visited Evansville recently to discuss his ideas on innovation, creativity and diversity with students and faculty at the University of Southern Indiana.
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People share their ideas for startups with entrepreneur Brant Bukowsky "all the time," he said, but only a few are ready to turn their dreams into reality.
They don't take that next step to start pursuing it," he lamented.