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Founders of Barefoot Wine appear in Forbes with lessons for budding entrepreneurs

Last December, my fellow FORBES contributor Robert Reiss, wrote a great piece entitled “The Incredible Story Of Starting The World’s Largest Wine Brand, Barefoot Wines.” The article was essentially a get-to-know two amazing people who launched what is now an iconic brand in a laundry room of a rented farmhouse in the Sonoma County hills.

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5 Warning Signs Your Employees Have Stopped Caring – Michael and Bonnie interview for Inc. Magazine

How can you tell when you’ve lost the confidence, commitment, andengagement of your employees? The signs aren’t always overt, warn Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, co-founders of Barefoot Wine (now part of E&J Gallo), and co-authors of the new

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Five lessons from watching Sam Walton selling an ironing board cover by Paul Smith

By Paul Smith, Cal Entertainment Exclusive Speaker Much has been studied about Sam Walton’s retail genius. But here are five simple lessons you can learn just from watching him sell an ironing board cover. . . The grocery retail chain H.E. Butt was founded in 1905 in San Antonio, Texas. Today H-E-B is one of

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