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How SeaTurtle Sports found their Small Town Advantage

By Small Biz Survival

  Guest Post by SeaTurtle Sports Co-founder Allen Bell and Allison Goldman, Director of SeaTurtle Sports Allen and Jeanne Bell launched SeaTurtle Sports in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2003 to design and manufacture premium beach and backyard games. As its founders, we observed a lack of new ideas in the category and what we felt was an unhealthy […]

September 9, 2014 Filed Under: big company, entrepreneurship, POV, rural, success, survivors Tagged With: guest post

How a small town flag business went online and went international

By Becky McCray

From Upstate New York town to Global Marketplace: How we got our flags off the ground Guest Post by Mike Cronin My business, Gettysburg Flag Works, is a manufacturer of flags and flag-related items. Although we love our brick and mortar operation, we realized that we needed a digital presence in order to remain competitive. […]

April 23, 2014 Filed Under: big company, entrepreneurship, POV, rural

Building a tech startup in a small city

By Becky McCray

  Simply Made Apps is a tech start-up based out of Fargo, North Dakota, population 110,000. They reached out to us because although that’s not really a small town, it is definitely rural and remote. Co-founder Brandon Medenwald talked about what it’s like to run a high-tech business in an isolated small city, far from […]

April 16, 2014 Filed Under: big company, entrepreneurship, POV, rural Tagged With: remote work, rural sourcing, service businesses, zoom towns

International Bonus: Building a business from a cabin in the woods

By Becky McCray

A bonus for you in Canada and around the globe, while the US is busy with family and Thanksgiving: an interview with Canadian entrepreneur Gregg McLachlan.  MP3 download: Gregg McLachlan mini interview Gregg McLachlan built a nation-wide resource site in Canada from his cabin in the woods using dial-up internet access. He told me how in this […]

November 28, 2013 Filed Under: big company, entrepreneurship, podcast, POV, rural, survivors

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