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Americans shouldn’t have to drive, but the law insists on it
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Podcasts should stick to exonerating the innocent
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France plans to put an 'ecotax' on nearly all air travel
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Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space
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Firefox 68 released
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Streaming TV is about to get very expensive as Disney, NBC and more companies start launching their own services and pulling their content from others
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WarnerMedia names upcoming direct-to-consumer service HBO Max
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Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund
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Microsoft admitted to private Linux developer security list
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More than a dozen people, including children and pregnant women, killed in PNG tribal massacre
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Political Juice's thoughts on the current state of America
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How To Build An App: Everything You Didn't Know You Needed To Know | Tom Scott
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Where does NASA keep the moon rocks?
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Data Analysis with Dr Mike Pound | Computerphile
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NASA maps surface changes from California quakes
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What would you include in a women-in-tech event for students?
Everyone loves the idea of “Yes, let’s teach girls and young women about technology careers!” However, too often I see people put their attention on “What do I want to say?” rather than “What does...
Everyone loves the idea of “Yes, let’s teach girls and young women about technology careers!” However, too often I see people put their attention on “What do I want to say?” rather than “What does it actually help them to hear?"
Let's say you are planning to hold a school event to encourage more girls to get into STEM careers. What, explicitly, would you include on the agenda? How would the agenda differ based on age or grade level? What metrics would you use to judge whether the event was a success?
I’d like to hear from people who have personally been involved in such events, as organizers, sponsors, and attendees. If you attended: What should have been included, that you later wished someone told you?
I’m writing a feature article in which I aim to provide a checklist of “what to include” for those who plan these sort of events. So please let me know how to refer to you in the article.
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A photographic immersion in "The Island of the Colorblind"
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The Mac client for Zoom (video-conferencing app) allows any site to enable your camera and connect you to a call, and leaves a web server running on your machine even if you uninstall it
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Marek Holeček on the first ascent of the northwest face of Chamlang
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Assessing the U.S. Climate in June 2019 - Contiguous U.S. surpasses wettest 12-month period on record for third time this year
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Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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Creator of "DeepNude" releases it as GPL licensed Open Source Software after previously taking it down
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Raspberry Pi Foundation confirms faulty USB-C design on Pi 4, plans to fix it in a future board revision
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Netflix announces "The Cuphead Show!", an all-new animated series that will expand on the characters and world of the game
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Haven – Gameplay reveal
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Does anyone here have any experience or knowledge about selling a services business?
Disclaimer: I will not make any money off of this sale. I am just asking for my old boss with whom I built this company. Even though I don't work there and have no stake, I just want to solicit...
Disclaimer: I will not make any money off of this sale. I am just asking for my old boss with whom I built this company. Even though I don't work there and have no stake, I just want to solicit the best advice on her behalf. I can give more details via a PM as she doesn't want to spread the word yet.
The business is a vacation rental company located in a premier resort town in the USA. It has existed since before airbnb was even a thing. The business is very profitable and technologically self-reliant. She has spent a decent amount on technology so that there aren't multiple outsiders taking a slice of each rental. I can provide the rough numbers via PM. The SEO is already #1 in the market. The company owns its office building, and multiple vacation rentals which could be packaged in with the sale.
It is the largest vacation rental company in the local vicinity, so selling to a direct competitor doesn't seem likely. It would seem to be the ideal sale/purchase for someone who is wealthy and is looking to retire early, live in a tropical setting, make money, and still have something to do. However, maybe contacting the larger, more corporate vacation rental businesses on the mainland would be the best option?
Google searches for this are an SEO disaster which is why I am asking here. Are business brokers necessary for something like this? It is so niche that I really just don't know what to look for. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Edit: to add, it is completely turn-key. Everything could be left as it is, with all current employees. Aside from executive decisions the only thing that the owner did, since we scaled to dominate the local market, was write the ad copy because she is really good at that. She only physically spent a couple months of the year there in the last few years. The only reason she is considering selling is due to aging-out.
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How the glow of the historic accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea has faded
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Denmark fines Total for discharging chemicals into North Sea
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Why America is ignoring Kirsten Gillibrand
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Mulan | Official teaser
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Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern with tonne of white Lego – retrospective investigates how we respond to nature
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Debian 10 "Buster" released
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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The corporate cash behind Oregon's GOP walkout
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Google faces contempt charge for failing to remove defamatory reviews
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Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89
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The Russian foreign intelligence service is responsible for the fake report that launched the Seth Rich conspiracy theory that captivated conservatives and was promoted by the Trump administration
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Record numbers rescued from Norway's iconic tourist site Preikestolen
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Alaska: Temperatures rival Miami amid 'unprecedented' heatwave
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Far-right Greek party crashes out of Parliament
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Sweden rejects Chinese request to extradite fugitive former official Qiao Jianjun
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This young arctic fox walked 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada
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Elvis Costello created a mammoth list of the 500 most essential albums in music history
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Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-in-Death (2011)
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Dozens of arrests in Copenhagen for drunk scooter driving
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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired
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Sweden's incredible new floating hotel and spa Arctic Bath has finally opened
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Climate-causing greenhouse gases in the decline in Colorado
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