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		<title>Final Exam Question to Merchants:  Calculate your Groupon&#8217;s ROI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Groupon spent $208 million in marketing for the first three months of 2011, this represented 77% of its $270 million of gross profit for the same three month period.   Groupon&#8217;s marketing spending for these three months was driven by customer acquisition in international markets it had recently entered.  International sales represented 54% of Groupon revenue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SoundBoard Angel Fund Getting Closer to Launch Date</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I attended an informational meeting about SoundBoard Angel Fund, which is getting closer to its launch date.  The fund will build on the expertise of SoundBoard Consulting Group, whose members have extensive experience coaching entrepreneurial led companies. Attorney Gregory Petroff, who is advising SoundBoard Ventures, told the meeting attendees that he believed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/11/08/soundboard-angel-fund-getting-closer-to-launch-date/</link>
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		<title>NY City Supporting Food Manufacturers in Meaningful Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn both emphasized the importance of New York City&#8217;s food manufacturers when speaking at Baruch College this morning, the site of the NYC Food Manufacturers Business Expo. Bloomberg mentioned that food  represents a $5 billion industry in New York City,  responsible for 19,000 jobs, and employment growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/10/24/ny-city-supporting-food-manufacturers-in-meaningful-way/</link>
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		<title>What to Do When the Cook Doesn&#8217;t Show Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I had an impromptu lunch a few weeks ago at Harry&#8217;s Burritos on 71st and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan.   Our waiter looked flustered when he seated us, and lunch took about forty-five minutes to arrive, way longer than we expected. When my wife asked the manager why service was so slow, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/09/19/what-to-do-when-the-cook-doesnt-show-up/</link>
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		<title>Key to Small Business Profitability Improvement:  &#8220;Create a Budget and Use it Effectively&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 9th, I conducted a seminar &#8211; Small Business Profitability Makeover &#8211; for 25 exhibitors at the Fancy Food Show, in Washington, DC. Attendees learned how to: refine their pricing tactics by checking out the competition determine which product lines are profitable and which aren&#8217;t save on purchasing by adopting tactics used by larger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/09/13/key-to-small-business-profitability-improvement-create-a-budget-and-use-it-effectively/</link>
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		<title>NY City Showing Support for Food Manufacturers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, NY City announced 22 new initiatives to help small industrial businesses stay and grow in New York.   As reported by the NY Times, overall employment by manufacturers in NY City has declined by almost two-thirds since 1990, but the number of jobs in food-making increased by about 6 percent last year, running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/06/10/ny-city-showing-support-for-food-manufacturers/</link>
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		<title>Stylitics wins 2011 Wharton Business Plan Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stylitics won the Wharton 2011 Business Plan Competition, beating out seven other finalists for the grand prize of $30,000 in cash and $15,000 in legal and accounting services.   The competition, which is open to any student of the University of Pennsylvania, began in the fall of 2010, with 210 contestants. Stylitics motivates customers (with gifts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/05/20/stylitics-wins-2011-wharton-business-plan-competition/</link>
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		<title>Willful Blindness &#8211; A Consultant&#8217;s Take</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read Michael Gerber’s eMyth Revisited in 2003, the same year I started my consulting practice.  I felt that it gave me a roadmap to success as a consultant.  The book opens by describing a woman who loves to bake, and her friends all suggest “you should be running a bakery.”  So off she goes.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/05/13/willful-blindness-a-consultants-take/</link>
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		<title>Senate Bill to Raise Credit Union Small Biz Lending Cap Stirs Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 9th of this year, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado introduced Senate Bill 509, the Small Business Enhancement Lending Act, a bill that would raise the permissible amount of Member Business Loans from the current cap of 12.25% to 27.5% of a Credit Union&#8217;s assets. In aggregate, Credit Unions &#8216; Member Business Loans equaled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/04/27/senate-bill-to-raise-credit-union-small-biz-lending-cap-stirs-debate/</link>
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		<title>60 Minutes Raises Tough Questions about Greg Mortenson and Central Asia Institute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday evening&#8217;s broadcast of the CBS news show &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; raised some important questions about &#8220;Three Cups of Tea&#8221; author Greg Mortenson and the governance of the charity he founded, the Central Asia Institute (CAI).   I watched the episode, reviewed the Central Asia Institute&#8217;s latest 990 form, and also read the CAI&#8217;s response to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rudofskyassociates.com/news/2011/04/21/60-minutes-raises-tough-questions-about-greg-mortenson-and-central-asia-institute/</link>
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