Palo Alto Online Reports on Franchise Growth
Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Oscar Kirkhope
While other girls were playing with their Barbies, at 6, Lisa Anter was charging 10 cents a cup at her lemonade stand at a lake near her Montreal, Canada, home.
The following year she upped it to 15 cents.
It would be another 20 years or so before her entrepreneurial instincts kicked in and she left the corporate world to open her own business.
But Anter didnt choose to go it alone. Instead she purchased a franchise in her case a couple of Curves circuit-training gyms where she could count on a national organization to back her new endeavors.
Amos Wu and his wife were concerned about how the economy was affecting Wus career as an engineer in Silicon Valley.
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