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Why web entrepreneurs are leaning towards lean startup
Do you remember Flooz.com? Like lots of websites spawned in the late '90s, it aimed big and spent bigger. "Flooz" was a virtual currency you could use at any retailer who'd accept it, but the company squandered lots of real currency in the process-at least $35 million-before going bankrupt in 2001, after 19 months. In a world of web winners and losers, it merited its own notorious category: a "floozer," you might say.
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Hostess Products Wonder Bread and Twinkies to be no more?
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Walmart Walkout on Black Friday: Employees Upset Over Minimum Wage
Walmart walkout, a protest by employees planned for Black Friday, may have crippling affects for the company on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.