The reasonable complaint is that attendees are hauling their trash off the playa but the infrastructure to deal with the trash after that still needs to be improved.
Personal anecdote: I attended lightning in a bottle years ago and they had a similar "pack it out" rule. Well that doesn't help when you're not aware of that prior to attending and need to dispose of plates from food you purchased at the event. I guess the expectation is that a day visitor carry around a trash bag full of waste with them all day. It came across as lazy by the event organizers.
For California it depends on both type of work and compensation. You can still be required to pay overtime to a salaried employee if they don't meet certain criterion such as being in a managerial position.
The last paragraph rings true to me. I've had designers leave my company because I consistently picked other designs over their's. IMO it comes down to a builder versus maintainer mindset.
It may sound ridiculous but consider this: most cigarette users looking for harm reduction have already tried e-cigs and found them unfulfilling. This product, even if a hackjob, has already achieved success internationally.
That's exactly right. Recessions are not behavioral patterns. They happen when borrowers can no longer borrow more to pay the interest on their existing debts.
It is entirely possible to get your Instagram reinstated. What you need to do is know someone who has a close relationship with FB. In the past I used a friend who owns an influencer agency. After months of submitting my own appeals his single appeal did the trick.
"Those are whopping margins, and the reason for this discrepancy is that rental markets have very different dynamics in expensive cities like New York and San Francisco than less expensive cities like Milwaukee. In low-cost cities, landlord profit rates rise steeply alongside neighborhood poverty. But in expensive cities, the reverse is true. In expensive cities, landlords make money through appreciation and gentrification (which is bad enough for the poor). In lower-cost, more economically hard-hit cities, they make it on the backs of the poor."
In expensive cities the underlying real estate appreciates and you make your money on that when you sell. The cash flows are mostly to cover maintenance and property tax but in some hot real estate markets rents won't even cover operating costs. In stagnant areas the property value is either stable or decreasing so you make your money on rent.
Low rent, high appreciation properties are attractive to investors who don't need cash flow. If you need cash flows you have to go the other way. This isn't surprising to anyone.
Mixed lighting greenhouses are common because you have a better final product, more control over the environment, and less risk of contamination from nearby farms that are using banned pesticides. There is still quite a bit of sungrown but it requires the right climate. Typically sungrown is only suitable for manufactured products.
It's not a good return on investment because the underlying asset hasn't appreciated 7.5%/yr some 8 years later. I am not a valuation expert but as a small business I'd estimate a 3x EBITDA placing the valuation at 2.34MM. The investors presumably owned a fraction of that.
Person A is a consultant/investor of business A who is looking to expand their retail footprint to a new geography. They have a friend, person B, who is a big networker. Person B knows the landlord of a business at a suitable location and introduces the two parties. The networker gets an option to invest, finds an investor willing to split the upside, and takes a mid 6 figure success fee with no money invested. The work done is pretty minimal and the entire thing relies heavily on knowing other wealthy individuals and successful entrepreneurs.
There are entrepreneurs whose primary income is serving as 'glue' through networking. They are constantly tapped to connect companies and bring projects to life. Typically they make themselves available to solve problems for you and make introductions.
I was having trouble swallowing after eating meat for a few months. I gave up meat but then it happened when eating a bagel. When I got into see the doctor he said it was a stricture forming in my esophagus due to acid reflux. Taking a proton pump inhibitor (Prilosec is a PPI) made all the swallowing symptoms go away.
This article is the playbook of how big business enters new industries. I went through this all in 2016 when big money started entering the cannabis industry. The invitations to use people's vacation homes, the fancy dinners, etc. were all part of the experience. They studied my business model and replicated it. They hired researchers and pioneers of the industry and then fired them all within 2 years once they learned everything they need to. In the end--it makes sense. We don't fit their culture and they don't fit ours.
The biggest mistake they made was ordering 3,000 decanters and 1,500 aerators. These were not custom products so why was the order quantity so high? As an importer it's clear that the agent they dealt with in China knew it was a one-time thing and juiced them on the quantity. Realistically they should've ordered 100 of each as a quality check, listed them for sale, and seen how it goes. Minimum order quantities rarely are.