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A consultant who helps other small businesses plot their growth struggles with her own. “Clearly,” she said, “I’m bad at managing what I create.”
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The Small Business Administration’s inspector general testified that the agency often did not effectively oversee small-business contracting programs and did not aggressively pursue companies that misrepresent themselves as small.
Stockbox intends to promote access to fresh food — and turn a profit — by blending the dependability of brick-and-mortar shops with the low overhead of pop-up retailers and food trucks.