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Garuda Indonesia’s Strange New Business Plan
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Garuda Indonesia’s Strange New Business Plan

In mid-2021, Garuda Indonesia announced plans for a major restructuring. The airline had been losing money for years (even pre-pandemic), and had crippling debt. It looks like the airline is now headed into a completely new direction, and… I’m not sure this is gong to end much better? Garuda Indonesia’s new business plan Indonesia’s State Enterprises Minister, Erick Thohir, has revealed new plans about what a restructured Garuda Indonesia will look like. As reported by Bloomberg:Garuda Indonesia will stop flying most international routes, with few exceptions, including pilgrimage flights to Saudi Arabia; most long haul flights will instead be…
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Top advice for young people starting a business
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Top advice for young people starting a business

Billionaire Mark Cuban was only 12 years old when he launched his first side hustle, so he knows what it takes to start a business at a young age. And, he says there’s one simple thing you need to consider if you want to do it, too. “The key to starting a business when you’re young is doing things you can do yourself — things you can do with your own time,” Cuban recently told a group of high school students at Lewisville High School in Texas. That means starting with what you know, he noted. “If it’s a product,…
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From creating, selling native beadwork, Skenandore expands to presentations on Oneida culture
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From creating, selling native beadwork, Skenandore expands to presentations on Oneida culture

Eliza Skenandore in front of the three sisters’ garden she helped plant and care for on the Oneida Cultural Heritage GroundsEliza Skenandore might have grown up on the Oneida reservation, but she says it was years before she came to truly appreciate the culture of the Oneidas. “I went through the Oneida school system all the way from kindergarten to 12th grade,” she said. “But it was when I was working at NWTC and surrounded by that culture that I felt like something was missing.” Before taking that job, she had trained as a multi-media tech at ITT Technical…
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How To Get Into Smart Rhythm For Growing Your Business
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How To Get Into Smart Rhythm For Growing Your Business

. Pexels Anyone running a business knows—or at least should know—that smart change management is an important key to their success. In fact, a long time ago a really savvy guy said the secret of change is to “focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” (That really savvy guy was a philosopher named Socrates.) In today’s world, many business leaders get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers “now” versus targeting future growth and possibility. That can be a risky approach to running a business. Successful serial entrepreneur Patrick Thean introduces a simple…
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Plateau Brewing wins 2022 Business Plan Competition
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Plateau Brewing wins 2022 Business Plan Competition

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Local entrepreneurs competed to develop and expand their businesses to win cash prizes in the 2022 San Angelo Business Plan Competition. Of the 37 entries in the competition, three made the finals and the winners were announced on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Development Corporation meeting that took place at City Hall. Plateau Brewing Company, a brewery and taproom in downtown San Angelo, was awarded the $40,000 grand prize. Managed by Michael Choate, Ross Baxter, Dan Adney and Luke Horton, they operate out of a historic building on South Chadbourne. According to the release, the competition…
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Kentucky Supreme Court elects next chief justice as John D. Minton heads toward retirement
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Kentucky Supreme Court elects next chief justice as John D. Minton heads toward retirement

The justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court voted Tuesday to elect Justice Laurance B. VanMeter as their next chief justice. He will begin serving a four-year term Jan. 2nd and will succeed Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr., who is retiring after 14 years as the head of the court and judicial branch. Kentucky’s chief justice paid $147,362.Chief Justice-elect Laurence VanMeterVanMeter was born in 1958 in Lexington and was raised in Winchester. He received his undergraduate degree with a major in history in 1980 from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of…
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