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New business ideas arise amid the pandemic
Due to the influence of Covid-19, many people have created their own jobs, businesses or moved to technology-based industries. It took Duong and her husband about a month to try different formulas to finally find the right recipe to make the frozen bread, a suitable storage time, re-baking temperature, and re-baking time. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Au Thuy Duong was forced to close her wedding dress shop but she has started a new, promising business. At 4 am on a day in late August, Au Thuy Duong, 30, of Long Bien district in Hanoi and her husband Pham Duc Duy got up to make more than 1,000 pieces of bread.…
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NYC Small Business Seek Adams’ Help to Rise From the Pandemic Recession
Square Wines and Spirits in Long Island City established its first website in 2017 and was working on an upgrade in early 2020 when the pandemic shut down the economy. Liquor stores were declared essential businesses and allowed to remain open, but Square shut its doors, concerned about the health of its staff. “We had to completely change our business model, relying completely on our website and e-commerce,” recalled Joi Swepsin, general manager of the Queens shop. And it worked: Square was helped by a spike in liquor sales in the initial months of the coronavirus crisis and made it through the pandemic recession virtually unscathed. The same can’t be…
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Researchers Dig Into How the Pandemic Is Impacting Business
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, many high school students embraced innovation. For Caleb A., a senior at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Georgia, that took the form of Up Next Finance, a website to help high school students understand investing, economics and personal finance. “My mission is to help people learn about finance and create a better life for themselves,” says Caleb, who has also turned to TikTok to share finance tips. Like any good researcher, Caleb couldn’t help but observe the shifting financial scene during COVID, initially with a plummeting stock market that was 30{3e92bdb61ecc35f2999ee2a63f1e687c788772421b16b0136989bbb6b4e89b73} off its high. That volatile landscape prompted him to also write Teenage CFO,…
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The pandemic pushed these Alaskans to quit their 9-to-5 jobs and start their own businesses — and they aren’t looking back
Amber Rochon is the operator of microgreens business enterprise Petite Bloom. A person of her consumers is Sip, a coffee lounge and wine bar, which takes advantage of microgreens on its salmon lox sandwich.(Marc Lester / ADN) Alaskans who released corporations during the COVID-19 pandemic say they’ve been rewarded with personalized pleasure they by no means acquired from their 9-to-5 employment. Lots of say they’re not going again. One Anchorage lady began a microgreens organization in a garage following her work did not give her the flexibility she needed. One more released a outfits boutique following she noticed pals starting up their own corporations. A single Anchorage gentleman pursued three…
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Pandemic Prompts Officials to Relax Rules on Home Businesses
It took 16 years, a local election and a global pandemic for Jonathan Holtfreter to secure his right to teach tuba in peace. The retired music teacher, a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, had for decades supplemented his public school salary by teaching private lessons at a nearby music store or in his home’s soundproofed basement. But since 2005—when a neighbor complained that the home lessons and the parked cars they invited violated Ann Arbor’s city code—Holtfreter has tiptoed around his business, booking fewer lessons than he otherwise could and exhorting students not to park where the neighbors might see them. He had little hope of changing the rules: The…
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Small Business Week kicks off; B.C. hits pandemic supports milestone
Resilience, perseverance and innovation are the cornerstone of this year’s Smaller Organization Week, Oct. 17-23. The Province recognizes the a lot more than 500,000 compact corporations in B.C. that continue on to adapt through the pandemic to keep people today safe and sound and give the products and services individuals count on. “The pandemic has tested every single and each individual smaller business enterprise in each aspect of this province,” stated Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Work, Economic Recovery and Innovation. “This week will allow us to glow a very well-deserved highlight on the substantial endeavours and perseverance of our tiny firms. From shifting gross sales to on-line platforms to the effective…