Dear Bruce The best way to fund a young vendor’s start
A father asks whether to loan money for initial inventory or fund the booth purchases and take a cut of sales. The adviser suggests a simple loan with open terms as the cleanest approach and cautions against a revenue share.
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Move it Move It New York Advertisers Wrap Cars for Ads
California firms pay drivers to wrap personal cars with ads for ice cream juice bars and Internet services. Some offer free cars, others pay 300 to 400 dollars monthly. Critics call it creeping commercialization while supporters say it lets average people earn cash and express themselves. Companies vet drivers by commute, driving record and car condition. ad wraps include tracking devices to verify mileage and exposure.
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New York
Mark Crispin Miller
New York University
Keith Powers
Myfreecarcom
California
Linda Morrison
San Jose
Calif
Morrison’s
Mark Fernandez
Jamba Juice Co
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Autowraps Inc
Minneapolis
Dan Shifrin
Lowestpremium.com
Dreyers Grand Tce Cream Inc
Edy's
Drivead.com
FreeCar.com
Powers
Myfreecar.com
Shifrin
Autowraps
Leslie Savan
The
Village Voice
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc
AOL TV launch to bring Internet to home screens
AOL will debut its AOLTV interactive television service in July starting in Phoenix Sacramento Baltimore and five others with a nationwide rollout into fall. It will charge 14.95 per month for members and 24.95 for nonmembers plus the 21.95 Internet fee, aiming to tap a potential nine billion in 2004 e-commerce and ad revenues.
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Dulles
America Online Inc
AOLTV
Phoenix
Sacramento
Baltimore
AOL
Microsoft
Interactive
Webtv
Youssef Squall
ING Barings
Time Warner
Forrester Research
Barry Schuler
Interactive Services
Opening stocks muster amid scattered figures and codes
A jumble of numbers and letters outlines stock quotes and market chatter. The readable items point to indices, prices, and percentages without clear company names or dates, suggesting a scrambled financial snippet from a newspaper page.
Local stock quotes from early quotation service
Early quotation list from Akin Investment Securities through Walnut Street Securities NASD SIPC shows prices for American Greetings Ames Dept Stores Bob Evans Cedar Fair Cleveland Indians Columbia Energy CVS DaimlerChrysler Emarson Electric Entergy Englehard FirstEnergy Firestone Bancorp Ford Motor General Motors and others with varied percentage figures quoted alongside each name.
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Walnut Street Securities, Inc
NASD
SIPC
Altell
American Greetings
Ames Dept
Bob Evans
Cedar Fair
Cleveland Indians
Columbia Energy Group
CVS Corp
Daimiec Chryater
Emarson Electric
Fv Englehard
Firat Energy
FiretMert Bancorp
Ford Motor
Vie
General Motors
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