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What 40 small businesses really bring in, and the catch nobody tells you. Every number from official records.
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How Marriott Makes Money From Empty Rooms
Marriott owns or leases just 51 of its 9,805 properties, and still gets paid when the rooms sit empty.
Why Nobody Can Copy Orkin
A teenage farm kid with 50 cents and a bag of arsenic started Orkin, which now sits inside a business of about $3.8 billion a year.
How a $6.6M Bike Company Ended Up in Bankruptcy
A family that welds titanium bikes by hand filed for bankruptcy owing about 200 customers $650,000.
How One Angry Customer Went After Adobe
A developer who says Adobe charged him a fee to quit put out free versions of 7 Adobe apps within 3 days of his first line of code.
How a $23 Million Coffee Chain Went Broke
Two Marines built a 25-café coffee chain, and it sold at auction for about $4.5 million.
How 4 Cryotherapy Studios Went Broke in One Year
Two couples went from one cryotherapy studio to four in a little over eight months, and a year after opening day one of their companies listed $434 in the bank.
How Wall Street Broke a Land Rover Shop
A Wall Street company holding $115 million of investors' money picked a shop that hand-builds $300,000 Land Rovers, and the shop got none of it.
What a Med Spa Owner Really Makes
VIO's top quarter of med spas averages $2,320,621 in sales, but across all 51 open a full year, the average is $1,254,631.
How a $25 Million Cookie Company Went Broke
Doug and Sara Taylor built a cookie company reportedly worth $25 million, and 15 months later it was in bankruptcy court.
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