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Entries from May 2009

Entrepreneur Profile: Tortilla Girl

May 22nd, 2009 by Emira · 11 Comments

I fell head over heels in love with Becky’s (aka Tor­tilla Girl) designs when I came across them on one of those hap­pen­stance web searches. At the time I was actu­ally look­ing for a bag for per­sonal use and came across this beauty, but then quickly became entranced by her cloth­ing line. In par­tic­u­lar her […]

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The Difference Between Them and Us

May 7th, 2009 by Emira · No Comments

I’ve per­son­ally been really hes­i­tant to com­ment too much on the eco­nomic down­turn and its impact on small busi­ness. On the one hand, I feel very strongly that the kind of busi­ness we have always advo­cated for — sus­tain­able growth, mea­sured risk and frame­works for mea­sures of suc­cess that don’t focus exclu­sively on bal­loon­ing profits […]

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Entrepreneur Profile: Moop Bags

May 4th, 2009 by Emira · 4 Comments

One of the things that has kept Lau­ren and I go through the book dreaming/writing/promotion process is the amaz­ing, smart and savvy busi­ness gals we get to meet and learn about. It was, after all, the seem­ingly end­less world wicked smart busi­ness women who inspired us to
first write The Boss of You.
I’ve always wanted to […]

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