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Friday, July 7, 2006

Chicken Fingers, Creative Talent & Ring Shopping for Men

by reyna11 on July 7, 2006

Todd Graves went fishing to start his Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant locations. No, he wasn’t lounging on a lake—he and co-founder Greg Silvey, now 31, were working 20-hour days on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska to raise money to open their first Baton Rouge, Louisiana, restaurant. It was lucrative, though dangerous, work. “It [...]

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Starbucks Voyage of Success

by reyna11 on July 7, 2006

It starts out like the classic American entrepreneurial success story. Three college friends get together from time to time and talk about what kind of business they could start. In this case, the three friends were Zev Siegl, Gordon Bowker, and Gerald Baldwin. The business they decided to start was gourmet coffee. It gets interesting. [...]

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