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    Specialty Auto Equipment Business Idea -- Please Critique

    IDEA 
    Okay here I go with another business idea, this again would be a future project if I did it. Anyways, here is the Wikipedia description of the Specialty Automotive Equipment industry: Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) of the automobile aftermarket was formed in 1963 by Roy...
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    One of the All-Time Greatest Business Blunders

    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article2701311.ece This is the story of Gerald Ratner (in his words), who worked thirty years to build one of the world's biggest jewelry retailers, only to have the whole company nearly collapse under him...
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    Inside Newegg (article about the warehouse infrastructure)

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    IT @ AnandTech: Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize - this article I found really awesome. It goes into some detail on the operations of one of the warehouses of Newegg and the infrastructure inside.
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    Question On Registrars and Domains

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    With domain name registrars, do you you have to use the registrar you register the domain name with to host your website? Also, I have noticed some of these registrars like 1and1 list the number of "subdomains" available. Is a subdomain for example like www.whatever.com/forum whereas the root...
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    Beverage Company Idea

    IDEA 
    So I was doing some brainstorming on business ideas and I got the idea for a beverage company of, instead of trying to create just the "next big thing" in beverages, like the next VitaminWater say, what about creating a company that consists of a bunch of niche beverage brands that are...
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    Smart Banker

    The Banker Who Said No - Forbes.com
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    Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/business/20amazon.html Thought this article was interesting. I think companies, at least e-tailers, can compete with Amazon as long as you are in a proper product category, for example footwear and apparel, or sporting goods, or others I'd imagine. For...
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    Can a Billion-Dollar Ecommerce Toy Company Be Created?

    So I have googled, and I noticed there seems to be no big "Zappos.com" of toys at all. It's just the ecommerce operations of chain stores. You have Toys R Us's website, then eToys, which is owned by Toys R Us, and then Wal-Mart. There are plenty of smaller ecommerce toy companies, but there...
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    Can A Business Go from Solely Ecommerce to Adding Retail Stores?

    So I have been thinking. Plenty of businesses that are retail chains have created ecommerce websites as well. However, I have not really seen any ecommerce brands create physical retail stores. I was wondering, is there a specific reason for this? Could a big ecommerce business do something...
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    Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Gives Utterly Brilliant Advice

    Marketing Headhunter.com: Zappos, Twitter, Culture, and Hiring Check the video at the bottom of the article, I was taking notes the whole time.
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    Random Idea I Just Got for a Business

    IDEA 
    So I was reading an article about franchisees who own multiple units, and this just got me thinking, could one create a franchise management company that say is a franchisee itself and owns many franchises from many different companies? So for example the company might own thirty McDonald's...
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    Judge Bars MGA Entertainment from Sales of Bratz Dolls

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Looks like Mattel has won, unless MGA can somehow have it overturned or however all this legal stuff works: Bloomberg.com: U.S.
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    Need Help Remembering Two Web Development Books

    Hey, I remember a thread had two Web development books recommended by PHX, one was "Don't Make Me Think" and then there was a second one, but I cannot for the life of me remember which one it was, and I can't seem to find it in the various threads I have checked either; I was wondering if...
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    This Guy Has BIG ONES!

    Babble Rouser - Forbes.com - this was posted at LamboPower, I figured I'd post it here as well.
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    The Ancient Greek Way to Get a Date

    FUNNY 
    So I was reading that in ancient Greece, during a certain time of celebration I believe (I forget exactly), starting in the morning, men would take pieces of cloth, stuff them under their arms, into their armpits, and leave them there all day. Come night time, the men would then present these...
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    Wow What A Strange Coincidence!

    OFF-TOPIC 
    So lately I've taken an interest in poker, along with my interests in investing. I also have a big interest in things like finance, mathematics, hedge funds, etc...however one thing I also love is engineering. I do not yet have an engineering degree, but I decided to Google around about...
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    From Poor to Multimillionaire to Poor to Billionaire to Poor...

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    How To Lose A Billion Bill Bartmann amassed a huge personal fortune building a wildly profitable company. Too bad it was all on paper. - October 25, 1999 Wow, what a story, he went from dirt poor to a multimillionaire, then broke, then to a multibillionaire, then poor again! Now I guess he...
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    Question on Venture Capitalists, Female Entrepreneurs, Babies

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Okay, well I was reading this article in an issue of Entrepreneur magazine about female technology entrepreneurs, and the one woman was talking about obtaining venture funding, and they asked her if she had any problems obtaining it, as a woman, and she said something like (this isn't the exact...
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    Jury Duty Scam

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    This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced. The...
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    My Plan to Work to $500 Million in Net Worth

    Okay, well after some pondering, I have figured I will start with the following business model/plan: The goal is to build a ecommerce business worth at least $500 million, built on a few hundred (at least) niche ecommerce sites that all follow a similar proprietary design/format with an...
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