All it took was one taste and Frios Gourmet Pop franchisees were hooked | Food Truck Operator

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What prompted you to start a food truck?

I had been laid off from work and was struggling to find employment, Then COVID-19 hit. After interviewing for what was basically my dream job and thinking that I had the job, I did not get it.

I have found that no one wants to hire someone my age for three reasons, It is cheaper to hire a younger person because of health insurance, they “assume” my starting wage will be too high because of my experience, and because I do not have a college degree.

After that I decided it was time to make my own money. I went looking for businesses to start up and landed with Frios Gourmet Pops and another dessert company that has been around awhile. My wife and I went to a Frios Pops store in Keller and tasted the product, at which point my wife stated “go for it.”

4 Early Consulting Career Mistakes to Avoid | Management Consulting Connection

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When I talk to my friends in consulting (across all firms and types of consulting), it amuses me that the early career mistakes we have made and witnessed are eerily similar across the board. I want to share four of them to help you avoid the most common mistakes and possibly course correct if you realize that you are heading down the wrong path.

1. Overcommitting to too many things

Consulting is sometimes like Disney World where there are simply too many interesting and fun experiences and only so much time available. Between genuine interest in multiple opportunities and FOMO (fear of missing out) anxiety, it is easy to get channeled into too many responsibilities beyond one’s bandwidth. That can be a real danger because something has to give. Either everything lowers in quality or you drop the ball on some responsibilities in order to give attention to the more urgent or important ones. Having a reputation for being mediocre or a poor performer in any area (even more trivial activities like virtual happy hour planning) can stain your reputation and scuttle future opportunities.

Should Your Business Get Fiber Internet? | business.com

June 7, 2021June 6, 2021 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Fiber optic internet offers very fast download speeds, but is it worth the price?

As you explore high-speed internet options for your business, you may see fiber optic internet as an option. This connection type is one of the fastest and most reliable, but that can come at a cost. Our guide breaks down what you need to know about fiber internet and how it compares with other types of internet connections so you can make an educated decision about whether or not fiber optic internet is best for your business.

7 Places Where Air Quality Sensors Are Most Effective | Digital Trends

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Keeping your home’s air clean and free of pollutants is the work of an air purifier. While combative, these devices are designed to only break down and destroy pollutants — not to analyze them. That’s where an air quality monitor enters the equation. Today’s leading air quality monitors are engineered to detect the pollutants streaming through your home’s air. Here’s why that’s important. Volume 90% The pollutants in our homes

Two of the most common airborne pollutants are fine particles and volatile organic compounds. Fine particles (PM 2.5) are microcosmic air particles with both indoor and outdoor sources. They’re created by everything from cooking and tobacco smoke, to vehicle exhausts and forest fires. Capable of being transported miles from their origins by wind, fine particles can wreak havoc on those with respiratory and heart conditions, children, and the elderly.

Is SafeMoon the Next Major Crypto Currency? | The Startup Magazine

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The appetite for crypto currencies is not losing its breath. SafeMoon wants to join the rank of the major virtual devices, by creating a safer version. Its plan is to charge high fees per transaction, in order to limit them. Will it work? Here is what the situation looks like, currently.

A Market High on Crypto Currencies

If you are wondering how hungry the market is for crypto currencies, look no further than the example of SafeMoon. There are already 2 million traders that have bought some of this virtual device, that is currently worth $.000007. But don’t let that fool you. It is already 202% higher, in just one month. That is greatly due to the fact that cryptocurrencies, as a whole, have been gaining through the last months. If you want to get into the action, with SafeMoon or others like Bitcoin and Ethereum, find the best trading platform online, today.

US Supreme Court rejects J&J talc cancer case appeal | BBC News

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The US Supreme Court has declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s appeal over a pay-out to women who alleged that its talcum powder contained asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.

The healthcare giant must pay $2.1bn (£1.5bn) in damages to the women.

The top US court did not comment on its decision, but has left in place a 2018 verdict that favoured them.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said decades of independent research show the product is safe.

The company asked the court to review the penalty it had been given after it was upheld in Missouri in 2020.

PPP’s Crazy Final Days | Inc.com

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When the Small Business Administration shuttered the Paycheck Protection Program for all lenders other than community financial institutions earlier this month–three weeks before the forgivable loan program’s May 31 end date–it sent shock waves through the system.

Womply, a loan facilitator based in San Francisco, quickly rattled off a report noting that as many as 1.6 million of its small-business customers would be left out. Numerated, the Boston-based digital lending platform for banks, said it had $1.4 billion in outstanding applications from more than 33,000 businesses that had been started but not yet approved by the SBA. Meanwhile, other lenders worked to scuttle their programs and divert borrowers, even as it remained unclear how much money was actually left.

Opting for a debt round can take you from Series A startup to Series B unicorn | TechCrunch

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Debt is a tool, and like any other — be it a hammer or handsaw — it’s extremely valuable when used skillfully but can cause a lot of pain when mismanaged. Fortunately, this is a story about how it can go right.

At the beginning of 2020, my company, Quantum Metric, was on a tremendous growth curve. We couldn’t have been more excited — and then COVID hit. Suddenly, everything was up in the air. Customer behavior quickly began to reflect the uncertainty we all felt, and my team wasn’t immune to it, either. Like most, we sweated through the first few months of the pandemic.

Grilling Over Charcoal Is Objectively, Scientifically Better Than Grilling Over Gas | WIRED

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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL day. The family’s in attendance, side dishes and beer in tow. Your sister-in-law brought a trunk full of Super Soakers. It’s BBQ time. Time to kick back in the yard and fire up the … stove?

Hmm, that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, does it? But that’s basically what you’re doing when you cook out on a gas grill, which is powered by the same largely flavorless fuel as your kitchen stove.

True fact: Cooking on a gas grill is more convenient than cooking with charcoal

Uber, Facebook, Instagram and other apps that are slowly killing your smartphone | Entrepreneur

June 2, 2021May 31, 2021 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

What is the first thing you do when you launch a new smartphone ? Download all the apps you need, of course. After a few hours (or days) downloading applications, your entry menu ends up covered in colorful squares, giving you the satisfaction that you have everything: apps for social networks, transport, dating, online commerce, for video conferencing and fitness, for name the most popular. However, recent research found that many of them are slowly killing your smartphone.

The pCloud company, which offers cloud storage services, conducted a study to discover which applications are most demanding for our mobile devices.