Business Columns
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Online purse-making business gets celebrity attentionJan 13, 2014 4:00 am - Aileen Parks of Lake in the Hills has turned a hobby into a business that now reaches celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival, the Primetime Emmys, the Wendy Williams Sh...
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Angel group founders share insights, investment criteriaJan 13, 2014 4:00 am - Is there a business owner who at some point hasn't dreamed of angel financing — a wealthy individual or group of investors who will shower money on the entrepreneur's ob...
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Career Coach: New year presents an opportunity to get betterJan 12, 2014 5:59 am - By Joyce E. Russell No matter what happened in 2013, it is now behind us, and it is time to look ahead to 2014. Hope is the thing that most of us want to feel with a new...
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Vehicles break down in subzero weatherJan 10, 2014 11:10 pm - Well now, wasn’t that fun! Of course, I am referring to what they termed the “Polar Vortex.” That actually felt like winters of old to me. Needless to say, we installed ...
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Schaumburg tech expert: Online attacks could increase in 2014Jan 09, 2014 11:00 am - Thousands of users of Yahoo.com last week unknowingly infected their PC or other device when they visited the site due to a malicious ad. Users didn't even need to click...
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New Year a time to show entrepreneurial flairJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - With virtually the entire year before us — the proverbial blank canvas — what entrepreneurial initiatives shall we undertake? What will we let our creative impulses do t...
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Military surgeon works here, while serving our countryJan 06, 2014 4:00 am - James Cole Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps to become a doctor and later traded in the high-tech operating rooms for tours of duty with a Marine Corps reconnaissan...
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Career Coach: A year of leadership lessonsJan 05, 2014 6:20 am - When we review the major events that have occurred over the past year, there are many leadership lessons that we can apply to our daily lives. We celebrated the life of ...
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Work advice: Managing family and client expectationsJan 05, 2014 6:00 am - Q. I’m a services consultant in a small company. I’m also the eldest daughter in my family, with responsibility for managing the care of parents six hours away. For the ...
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Batavia’s TimePilot plans on Bluetooth version of workers time clockJan 02, 2014 10:00 am - A Batavia-based global business aims to change the way schedules are collected on how workers clock in and out daily from their jobs. TimePilot Corp. has made time c...