The Wall Street Journal ran a great piece earlier this week about parents and children going into business together. And not the more typical passing-down of the family business, either — they highlighted three families who built a company from the ground up, working together. The families were a mother and daughter coming up with…
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Meetings need to be short and to the point
We’ve all been there — the office meeting that drags on… and on… and on. I’ve sat through my share of boring meetings during my time in the corporate world. We had one vice-president who droned on so long, the only thing that kept us awake was keeping a tally of how many names he…
Diaper venture nets a cool $500M
Who wouldn’t want to trade some dirty diapers for $500 million? Well, almost — Jersey City-based Diapers.com and Soap.com, websites that deliver necessities to your doorstep, was acquired by Amazon on Monday. According to the Star-Ledger, (Marc) Lore and his childhood best friend from Tinton Falls, Vinit Bharara, founded the company five years ago after Lore,…
New Jersey businesses embrace QR codes
We’re used to barcodes; we’ve seen them for years. We’ve watched super market check out attendants scan our groceries, and even scanned them ourselves. But what about QR codes? Newer to the scene, and perhaps more important to your business than you imagined when you first saw the video game jumble of dots and squares,…