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Brilliant Boutique: 10 Keys To Lasting Small Business Success

Terry Starbucker

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. They wanted a place where they could actually see the merchandise, and have a more edited and curated selection so it was easy for them to choose. You can do it without outside financing.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The previous year the company had generated more than $4 billion in gross merchandise sales through its platform, yielding about $50 million in revenue.