{"id":4177,"date":"2015-01-22T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2015-01-22T19:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:00:29","slug":"business-leaders-detail-trials-triumphs-at-forecast-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/4177\/business-leaders-detail-trials-triumphs-at-forecast-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Business leaders detail trials, triumphs at forecast breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8fb8d21927524ec8b300dfda624c3fcb&#038;url=http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/22\/business-leaders-detail-trials-triumphs\/&#038;c=jBd1BqptVoOQHlCEAvAcl7PazM0YtXcWpXOdZmi8_T8&#038;mkt=en-us'>Business leaders detail trials, triumphs at forecast breakfast<\/a><br \/>Four local business leaders described their own stories of finding success     often through unforeseen circumstances. Eric Preisz, CEO of GarageGames, was once a customer of the video game technology company he now leads. Mary Sisson, co-owner of  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8fb8d21927524ec8b300dfda624c3fcb&#038;url=http:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\/news\/2015\/jan\/22\/iss-long-beach-more-business-giant-t-shirt-market\/&#038;c=2CugwbYDIQbPVqr_DEnfb5ITzWGqnie8QI0dUGnLsMs&#038;mkt=en-us'>More Business for Giant T-shirt Market<\/a><br \/>With screen-printing machines whirring and salespeople talking about the next big thing in T-shirts, the Imprinted Sportswear Show Long Beach ran Jan. 16   18 at the Long Beach Convention Center, located by one of America   s busiest ports, in Long Beach  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8fb8d21927524ec8b300dfda624c3fcb&#038;url=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/greatspeculations\/2015\/01\/22\/earnings-review-amd-focuses-on-reigniting-its-pc-business-continued-growth-in-new-markets\/&#038;c=6DnSdqkLNL5adBP_J5tiliWRE-YWppjm14Gs8vDi-cs&#038;mkt=en-us'>Earnings Review: AMD Focuses On Reigniting Its PC Business &#038; Continued Growth In New Markets<\/a><br \/>AMD reported its Q4 2014 and full year 2014 earnings on January 20. 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The Consumer Financial  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=8fb8d21927524ec8b300dfda624c3fcb&#038;url=http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/12205207\/michael-jordan-gets-emotional-winning-business-award&#038;c=NgyVeBh_AXxdhvfzne0Qp5cl9WeLg48hcY4YlV7NGMg&#038;mkt=en-us'>Michael Jordan wins business award<\/a><br \/>CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; A humbled and emotional Michael Jordan fought back tears, feeling vindicated after years of criticism, after being named the Charlotte Business Journal&#8217;s Business Person of the Year. The Charlotte Hornets owner said during a nine-minute  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders detail trials, triumphs at forecast breakfastFour local business leaders described their own stories of finding success often through unforeseen circumstances. Eric Preisz, CEO of GarageGames, was once a customer of the video game technology company he now leads. Mary Sisson, co-owner of More Business for Giant T-shirt MarketWith screen-printing machines whirring and salespeople &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/4177\/business-leaders-detail-trials-triumphs-at-forecast-breakfast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Business leaders detail trials, triumphs at forecast breakfast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}