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Monday Q&A: Open season for shucking
Ryan and Travis Croxton, owners of Rappahannock River Oysters, are opening Rappahannock at Third and Grace streets.
The 10-year-old oyster business has opened two other operations this year: An oyster bar in Washington’s Union Market and a tasting room at one of their three oyster farms in Topping, Va.
Zero to startup in 54 hours
An event that gives budding entrepreneurs one weekend to develop a business plan is making its way to Richmond.
NewsFeeds 3.16.11
Covenant Woods plans major expansion (Times-Dispatch) A retirement community in Mechanicsville that started in 1883 as the Richmond Home for Ladies is planning a multimillion-dollar expansion that will increase its size by nearly a third. Budget delay sinks 4 Hampton Roads shipyard projects (Virginian-Pilot) The Navy has canceled four ship-repair jobs at Hampton Roads shipyards… Read more »
Guest Opinion: Money in a bottle
The problem with ABC privatization is not the concept, writes Mike Thompson. The challenge is coming up with the revenue to replace the current system, which places an average effective tax rate on distilled spirits of 94 percent.
BizSense Pro: Be in the know
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NewsFeeds 5.10.10
How a Utah cowboy made it big (Times-Dispatch) A great profile of hotelier Glade Knight: . “I started with $100,“ said Knight, chairman and CEO of the four Apple REIT companies based in Richmond. “Anything over that is a profit.“ Bank sees key capital ratio drop below threshold (Virginian-Pilot) Bank of Hampton Roads, whose financial… Read more »
A new kind of capital fund
There’s a new group of Virginia investors looking to invest as much as $250,000 at a time into growing businesses, and reasons it might succeed where others have failed include a social component and low-pressure requirements for members.
Deal to buy baseball team is dead
The current deal for the Richmond Baseball Club to buy the Connecticut Defenders is going to expire, the investor’s spokesman told the Norwich newspaper The Day: Peter Boisseau, spokesman for Richmond Baseball Club LC, which had a deal to purchase the Defenders for $15.4 million and move the team to Richmond, said this morning there… Read more »
Two seniors win $2,000 in UR biz plan contest
UR seniors Daniel Brunt and apartment-mate Christopher Genualdi pitched their business plan to a panel of judges about their concept Sniff-Stick LLC and won $2,000 to get rolling. The three other finalists had some promising ideas, too.