Business
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Credit for Success
Every business depends on credit. Credit breathes life into enterprise, oils the machine of commerce, and provides capital to expand. Banks exist to loan money...
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Being an Entrepreneur
How does someone decide they are meant to be a business owner, an entrepreneur? How do they know they can succeed during the worst economic...
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Branding 101
The swoosh. The round green symbol of coffee worldwide. The golden arches. We instantly recognize and remember all of these branding icons. But branding is...
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Symbiotic Space
Chamber Connections The best usually comes around with the worst. In business, when these opposites combine, prospects for good business deals arise. Such is the...
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Artist as Entrepreneur
CAGLCC Connections Painters, sculptors, actors, musicians: For them the term ''starving artist'' was coined. But not so Peter Fox, an artist who also runs a...
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Saying 'I Do!'
When Tammy Freeman, a member of the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC), and her partner started planning their wedding, she quickly...
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Celebrating Business
Every year, the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC) celebrates by recognizing LGBT individuals who have made a difference, directly or indirectly,...
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Getting With The Future
CAGLCC Connections What's in a name? For a new business, quite a bit. In 2009, Thomas Sanchez founded Wamwaw LLC, a D.C.-based firm focused on...
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The Accidental Entrepreneur
In keeping with the nature of his business, Gus Elfving calls himself the ''Principal and Pack Leader'' of Pet Peeps, a company he founded in...
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Banking on It
You may think of bankers as very traditional people, but that's not how Ken White thinks of himself. ''I like to think outside of the...
