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Boat shows help build relationships
Boating seems to be one business in which same-day sales, even at the state’s industry trade shows, isn’t an accurate assessment of how well...
Cooking classes part of recipe to lure customers
The first thing to know about Indian cooking, said Sanjiv Dhar, executive chef at and owner of Rasoi in Pawtucket, is that chefs can’t...
Minority-owned companies not getting share of contracts
When Lisa Ranglin helped announce the creation of the Rhode Island Black Business Association in October 2011, she said there was a serious need...
ACLU says state hostile toward medical marijuana
Since Rhode Island made medical marijuana legal in 2006, there has, some say, been one roadblock after another in getting patients served and, more...
Campus entrepreneurs follow hearts
Every woman loves to receive a compliment.
So when Stephanie Olsen received one on her headband, while having a coffee in a New York...
Making a mark in audio/video world
Bill Dean seems to be living life unscripted. Since 2010, he’s been the owner and business manager of Event Resource Group, a Warwick-based audio...
Summit to explore skills gap causes, solutions
(Correction, Oct. 23, 10 a.m.)
Is there a skills gap in Rhode Island?
That is, are available jobs going unfilled or being taken by employees who...
More investment needed in efforts to aid small business
When the opportunity came up in 1983 to help establish the Rhode Island Small Business Development Center program at Bryant University, Douglas Jobling didn’t...
Johnson & Wales to redesign arts, sciences curriculum
When Mim Runey was named president and chief operating officer of Johnson & Wales University’s Providence campus in July 2011, she’d already done much...
Pumpkin spectacular an annual smash at zoo
If there’s going to be an ode to “Gone With the Wind,” in the form of an elaborate, eye-catching artistic display, you’ve got to...
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