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A New Leader in Franchising Emerges
For the first time in over a decade, Subway did not top Entrepreneur’s annual Franchise 500 rankings. For 2008, it was the 7-Eleven Inc. convenience store franchise that pushed the sub sandwich franchise back to second place.
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Employees Seek Work/Life Balance
Monster, a leading online global careers network, has found that 89% of workers believe that work/life balance programs are important when evaluating a new job.
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Sunbelt Book Club
McIlhenny’s Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire and Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results are reviewed.
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Circumventing the "Perfect Storm"
 People frequently use the term "The Perfect Storm" to describe a simultaneous series of events whose chance combination produces a far more powerful impact than that of any single contributing event. By their nature, perfect storms are rare – conditions must be just right and the slightest change to any one component of a perfect storm can lessen the overall impact.
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Third Quarter Shows Venture Capital Still Strong in 2007
The 2007 third quarter MoneyTree™ Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association suggests an ongoing stability in funding from venture capitalists. While the first six months of 2007 boasted the highest level of deals reported since 2001, the third quarter slowed to $7.1 billion invested in 887 transactions; down slightly from the $7.2 billion invested in 1,000 deals last quarter.
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SEC Supports SOX Extension for Small Business
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox gave small businesses some relief on December 12, 2007, telling members of the House Small Business Committee that he supports an additional one-year extension—until 2009—of small business compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Section 404 reporting requirement. This is significant because unless the SEC or Congress takes action, small public companies will have to begin complying with parts of SOX as early as 2008.
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