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CLOTHING 
April 2, 2016 This Women’s Clothing Brand Is Made For Professional Women Who Hate To Shop
ELIZABETH SEGRAN 03.31.16 6:06 AM “I’m so sick of the stereotype that all women are shopping-obsessed,” Sarah LaFleur, the 32-year-old cofounder of the workwear brand MM.LaFleur, tells Fast Company. After college, LaFleur spent several years working in management consulting and private equity, where she needed a rotation of crisp, smart work clothes. But she had […]
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NEWS 
March 17, 2016 The Monk Who Inspired Steve Jobs, Influenced Apple’s Designs
Robert Palladino’s name appears nowhere in Steve Jobs’s lengthy authorized biography, but he had an enduring influence on Jobs and the business empire he erected. Jobs sat in on Palladino’s calligraphy class at Portland’s Reed College, which eventually inspired the elegance for which Apple computers are renowned, the tech icon recalled in his famous 2005 […]
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NEWS 
March 16, 2016 Who needs your product/service or solution?
For those of you who read “Step 1: Is your Idea a Business or a Hobby?” (http://mintne.ws/1RmBHr3) in the first article of this seven-part series, you will find this article equally relevant and useful in helping you to progress your idea to the next step. We all know the best ideas often stem from real […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 15, 2016 Don’t Have Money? 17 Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped Their Startup from Nothing
Think you can’t start a successful business without huge rounds of funding? Think again. There have been plenty of hugely successful entrepreneurs through the years who bootstrapped their startups from nothing. Here are some of the most successful entrepreneurs who bootstrapped their businesses. Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped Include … Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak The story […]
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NEWS 
March 12, 2016 Calligrapher monk Robert Palladino, who inspired Mac typography, dies at 83
Father Palladino, a Roman Catholic priest who learned the art of calligraphy as a Trappist monk, inspired the transformative typefaces used in Apple’s first machines, and by extension the modern personal computer. Prior to Mac, computers and operating systems used fonts and typesets that boasted all the artistic appeal of an IBM punchcard. As reported […]
