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The fact that cooperatives are democratically managed and jointly owned is proving to be an attractive option for new technology startups today. The cooperatives also let free-lance technology experts to come together to give the world products that they would..
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Welcome to Millstone Co-op! The Boston area is seemingly overflowing with housing cooperatives. Somerville, a city just north of Boston, is home to the Millstone Coop, which houses 11 people who work in the nearby area. Millstone is nestled just..
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You might have heard often that spending is good for economy but not many of us are incredibly rich to spend on unnecessary things to boost the economy. Most of us are left with just a little after buying all..
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If you are finding it hard to decide between a credit union and a bank for your new account or a loan, you must try and understand the difference between them first. Both are similar in many ways but there..
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Entrepreneurship is the main thing that is taught in business schools. A good business does not encourage being employed but generates a want among students to be their own boss. What most business schools fail to understand is that behavior..
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The economy in the US is now on the path to recovery and small businesses, which are the primary source of jobs in the country, are seeking capital during this recovery. Crowd funding can come to their rescue with President..
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The recent economic turmoil has proved one thing for sure and it is the fact that businesses need to move away from the traditional corporate structure and embrace grass roots capitalism. And this is how we define the new economy...
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Summer is a time when people like to have fun and travel around. But for many, the constraint is finance. Then, there are other problems like the lack of know how about a particular place, transportation, accommodation, etc. For instance,..
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Last weekend I went to a wedding in Lyons Colorado. The morning after the wedding, my girlfriend and I went to a coffee shot for breakfast. As we went to reach for a plastic stir stick to mix our coffee,..
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With Cooperative projects across the world, pre-junior Anna Gourlay wasn’t looking to go international for her first co-op experience, but somehow she ended up camping in Mongolia. Gourlay worked as an assistant staff scientist at the Academy of Natural Sciences..
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