He dabbled first in scriptwriting, then needlepoint, opening a tiny shop where he experimented with unusually colored yarn.

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Leeds struck out on his own in 1995, ditching a steady paycheck as a planning manager for printermaker Lexmark and opening a consulting shop in Guangzhou, China to help American companies set up manufacturing plants there.

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Genius struck when the 13-year-old married said chips with fish from a nearby fried fish shop, which he likely sold from a tray hung around his neck before opening his own shop around 1860.

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By 1904, Marks and Spencer were able to put the business on a firmer footing opening shop premises at the, then recently-opened, Cross Arcade in the city.

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When those panned out, Kinsella began noodling the idea of selling his shop in Utah and opening a new one with Quintos overseas.

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She said imaginative ways of looking at siting post offices have seen businesses opening in a pub in Tintern, a hat shop in north Wales and in a Chinese takeaway in England.

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If Office Depot can open up a retail shop that is also a coworking space, what about a department store opening up space for you to create and customize your own clothing in stores?

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However, after the opening of a supercentre near our house, we hardly shop anywhere else.

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John Coffren took this step with Facebook because he'd never spent time on the site before opening Bliss Bakery, a bricks-and-mortar shop in Virginia Beach, Va.

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The mighty Google just set up shop in the city this past December, opening a one-floor shared work environment available for free to Israeli startups, developers and entrepreneurs.

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