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Get ready for the cold days ahead…">Want to be an ice cream entrepreneur? Get ready for the cold days ahead…</a></h2></div> <div class="cat-post-meta-top">Posted Jun. 20, 2012 by <a href="http://matthunt.co/about" title="Matthew Hunt">Matthew Hunt</a> | <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/failure-forums/want-to-be-an-ice-cream-entrepreneur-get-ready-for-the-cold-days-ahead/64#replies">1 reply</a></div> <div class="cat-post-excerpt" id="page-content"><p>The Federal Small Business (SBA) association recently calculated their 2012 list of the business franchises that most frequently failed to repay their SBA loans. Blue MauMau, a blog focusing on the business of franchises in the United States, recently published the list as the <a title="SBA Worst Franchises of 2012 - Blue MauMau" href="http://www.bluemaumau.org/11665/worst_25_franchises_highest_failure_rates_2012" target="_blank"><strong>Worst 25 Franchises to Buy with the Highest Failure Rates 2012</strong></a> and 4 of the worst 25 were ice cream franchises: Carvel Ice Cream (56.41%), Marble Slab Creamery (43.66%), Cold Stone Creamery (41.93%), and MaggieMoo’s (39.39%).</p> <p><a href="http://www.matthunt.co/failure-forums/want-to-be-an-ice-cream-entrepreneur-get-ready-for-the-cold-days-ahead/64" class="front-continue">Continue Reading</a></p> <div class="clearboth"></div></p> </div> <div class="cat-post-meta-bottom"> <div class="cat-post-meta-tags">Tags: <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/tag/entrepreneur" rel="tag">Entrepreneur</a>, <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/tag/failure" rel="tag">Failure</a>, <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/tag/franchise" rel="tag">Franchise</a>, <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/tag/sba" rel="tag">SBA</a>, <a href="http://www.matthunt.co/tag/small-business" rel="tag">Small Business</a></div> <div class="cat-post-meta-share"> <div class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Want to be an ice cream entrepreneur? 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The plug is being pulled on the “test” after less than two years for Apple’s social “music” network when it debuted on September 1st, 2010. 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