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When McKenzie Tuttle walked down the aisle to say “I do” to her husband-to-be Jeff Bezos, she thought she was marrying into a secure future. At the time, Bezos was in his 30s and serving as Vice President of an investment firm in New York City. It was a job he liked – and one that paid well – but Bezos couldn’t shake this crazy idea from his head;
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Dave Thomas starred in 652 commercials for Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, more than any other person in television history.
But, he wasn’t just that friendly face you saw on TV with his white shirts and red ties; Thomas built his multi-billion dollar fast-food restaurant chain from the ground up, earning him a reputation as one of the most s
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Estilo's founder, Stephanie Coultress, brings it home - money isn't everything, but a lack of it is. Plus, it's also about loving what you do because it is a 24/7 pursuit. Learn how she keeps it all in the family & how she turned her worst day into her best sales day ever. CLUB E "Original Programming."
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The average customer visits their local Costco 22 times a year. The company has become one of the largest in the U.S., with 473 outlets and more than $50 billion in sales, and is also the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, has been called the Sam Walton of the 21st century for his low-key style
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This might come as a shock to some folks, but bigger isn't always better. A shock, to be sure. But pick yourself off the floor and listen. Big payrolls don't guarantee success any more than adding cheese to a recipe guarantees an instant gastronomic delight. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
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At 74 years old, he is still busy making people look good. Giorgio Armani is one of the preeminent Italian fashion designers in the world, still going strong after 33 years in the industry. Known for his classically tailored, sleek power suits and clean, high quality fabrics, everyone from the who’s who of Hollywood to the bankers on Wall Street h
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After losing his close friend in 9/11, David Sylvester decided to ride his bike 20,000 miles to raise money for charity and do something meaningful with his entrepreneurial talent.
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Actually, says the multi-millionaire founder of Maxim and other lad mags, you probably shouldn’t even try. His book, How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets, newly published in America, mostly skips the braggadocio and platitudes typical of self-made-millionaire memoirs.
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Tom Szaky has often been told that he is crazy. At age 19, he dropped out of Princeton to start TerraCycle, a business revolving around selling an all-organic liquid plant food made from worm feces—and no, that's not a typo. When he first started out, he had a hard time raising capital and people often laughed him right out of the office. But thi
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While most people try to get rid of their beer belly, Brooks Lambert is trying to sell you one. For as long as he can remember, Lambert wanted to be an inventor. As a child, his father would always ask him what he wanted to invent and his reply was “cool stuff.” He did just that when he created his quirky product, the Beerbelly through his busines
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Imagine that: someone so good at what they do that they can wreak existential havoc on their constituency and alter business paradigms for everyone else.
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Featured on the cover of this month's New York Enterprise Report, Leonard has grown his father's Norwalk, Conn.-based dairy farm into a four-chain supermarket that redefines the shopping experience.
Too bad you have to live in the Northeast to enjoy Stew Leonard's. What makes this place so unique is aside from its high-quality, uber-fresh fo
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A wonderful look back into the rise and success of "the annoying kid at conferences" turned "unsung hero and upcoming star"!
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How Project Better Place is using the principles of innovation to transform Israel by eliminating the need for oil by 2020.
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This article from Fortune Small Business explores how several small businesses are prepared to thrive - even if recession strikes.
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