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Monthly Archives: July 2014
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Not Sorry: Confidence Is Key For Women at Work
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Women face a lot of external challenges in business and leadership, but one of their biggest hurdles is actually internal: a lack of confidence.
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How to Sell Your Startup Idea to VCs in 30 Seconds
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Advice to entrepreneurs: know your material cold. Time is always the enemy, the clearer and more succinct your message, the better.
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Task force collects $15.6M in unpaid wages, taxes
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A multi-agency task force in Massachusetts charged with recovering money lost in the underground economy has collected more than $15.6 million.
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Y Combinator Company Teaches Students How to Develop iOS Games
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MakeGamesWithUs Academy, a Y Combinator company, gives high school and college students the tools and knowledge to master the ‘superpower’ of building iOS games.
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Women business owners face gender gap, report says
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Women who own small business are still far behind their male counterparts when it comes to getting loans and government contracts, a congressional report said Wednesday.
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MonaVie Adds Nutritionist Mark Macdonald To Its Scientific Advisory Board
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MonaVie announces today that nutrition and fitness expert Mark Macdonald joins its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The addition of Macdonald will help ensure the company has the right expertise to support current product development plans and necessary substantiation for research and development.
No stranger to MonaVie, Macdonald has been with the company as its nutrition and fitness expert since 2011, and was influential in helping formulate MonaVie’s RVL and CORE line of products.
“It’s an incredible honor to be added to MonaVie’s Scientific Advisory Board,” Mark said. “For more than 20 years I have dedicated my life to empowering others and showing people what is truly possible with their health. As an educator, expert, and motivator I know that partnerships are the key to changing the course of the international health crisis.”
Macdonald joins current SAB members, Dr. Jun Nishihira, specializing in biochemistry, from Japan, and Dr. Hervé Rogez, a food science expert, from Brazil.
Mark added, “Since its inception, MonaVie has been on the front line in developing cutting edge products designed with a specific purpose—products that are focused on enhancing one’s health and truly ‘filling in the gaps’ of where most of us fall short in our daily nutritional needs. Together we will continue making a
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Mary Kay Event Expecting 30,000 Attendees
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Mary Kay Inc.’s 2014 seminar that kicked off Wednesday is expected to bring more than 30,000 attendees to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, generating $32.1 million and 2,4000 jobs into the city of Dallas.
This year marks the 40th anniversary that Dallas has hosted Mary Kay’s signature 18-day event. The seminar ends Aug. 2.
Last year’s seminar celebrated the Addison-based cosmetic company’s 50th anniversary and drew more than 50,000 international attendees. The estimated economic impact of last year’s seminar was $49 million.
For the Dallas convention center, the seminar is among a list of almost 20 major events that combined are expected to draw more than 250,000 guests to the venue.
So far this year, events at the center have generated more than $200 million, counting the impact of the Mary Kay Seminar. Top events hosted this year, include the Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which drew 50,000 attendees and generated $43.03 million, and Mary Kay’s seminar.
Last year, events generated a total of $1.6 billion for the city.
Check out the slide show for images from Mary Kay meeting seminars through the years.
Here is a timeline highlighting Mary Kay’s history in Dallas:
Mary Kay Seminar
1963 – Beauty by Mary Kay opens for business in Dallas.
1964 –
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Statement From Herbalife In Response To Bill Ackman’s Three-Hour Presentation On Nutrition Clubs
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Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) today issued the following statement in response to Bill Ackman’s three-hour, presentation on the Company’s nutrition clubs:
Herbalife is a 34-year old nutrition company with 7,400 employees worldwide and millions of members. Today, Mr. Ackman highlighted many of the reasons we are proud of our company, our record and the value we bring to members, consumers and communities around the world. His presentation reaffirmed that:
Herbalife is first and foremost a company with great products that people want.
There are hundreds of thousands of members and millions more consumers who choose Herbalife for our products and community-based approach to health and wellness.
There is a comprehensive training system for members who aspire to open their own nutrition club so that they are fully informed of the time, commitment and skills required to do so.
Once again, Bill Ackman has over-promised and under-delivered on his $1 billion bet against our company. After spending $50 million, two years and tens of thousands of man-hours, Bill Ackman further demonstrated today that the facts are on our side.
We will continue to focus on our mission of bringing good nutrition and economic opportunities to communities across the globe. We recognize that he is running out of time to make good on his bad bet
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Michigan approves 9 projects to add 3,900 jobs
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Michigan on Tuesday approved state incentives for nine economic development projects expected to bring about 3,900 jobs, nearly half from General Motors consolidating engineering jobs from outside the state at a site in Michigan.