i'm jj ramberg and welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to help your growing business. this may sound like a tongue twister, but you're about to meet these boyfriends who started smelling for monstart started this business between competing founders. >> it started in 2012 with four friends from totally different backgrounds all with one giant sweet tooth. >> the business where i started by accident, we never really planned for it to be what it is today. >> it was an opportunity to sell french macaroons at holland park. >> we opened the location and made $250,000 in nine weeks. >> with that quick success, it began to sink in that they may be on to something. >> it was pretty amazing, we were sitting at home and were look, woops, we have a business. >> reporter: todaythe largest macaroon company. it's successful because of the partnership between the four founders that had to evolve over the years. >> oh, yeah. >> i see potential there. >> all too often i see a lot of partnerships in businesses grow because a couple friends came together and just become partners. they don

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i'm jj ramberg. and welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to helping your growing business. does the rise of online shopping mean the death of brick and mortar? one pair of entrepreneurs isn't waiting to find out. they have developed a new brick and mortar business model that doesn't depend on making sales or stocking inventory and still make a profit. how are they doing it? and will they succeed? we went to silicon valley to find out. when you walk into the san francisco store, every move you make is turned into data. >> here you can see that the customer just kind of is walking by, not stopping at this product. but once he enters the zone of the product, it turns green. >> this is data. and according to the founders, it may be the new face of brick and mortar retail. >> our model was not built on sales. it doesn't matter whether you buy now or somewhere else. >> what did he just say? >> i doesn't matter to us if you buy now or buy somewhere else. >> data doesn't make money from selling the

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i'm jj ramberg. and welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to helping your growing company. will they want it or not, business owners get lots of feedback. of course, what you choose to do with that information is totally up to you. on this mother's day, we introduce you to the founder of a glassware brand who didn't ignore when she was being told, even though her company was doing pretty well. despite her success, she decided to take a hard look at her products after figuring out that her business wasn't attracting customers that she wanted and would inevitably need. ♪ >> i said, you know, oh, my mom loves your work, loves your stuff. and the gracious person that annie is said, thank you. >> nathan shedrock honestly thought he was paying the business owner annie morehouser a compliment. >> i was excited to meet annie morehouser. and by no means did i realize what i said. she was thinking more than thank you very much. >> i was like, oh. oh. then i quickly covered it up with, thank you, thank you. i'm so glad to hear that. >> little did nathan know she just tapped into one o

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