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- ↑ "Chocolate Explosion". Business Week . July 31, 2000. Archived from the original on 2015-01-20. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
The twentysomething Vermont native's title is chief chokolada (no joke), and he's the founder of online gourmet chocolate purveyor Dan's Chocolates.
- ↑ "Homemade Apps Make Life Sweet". InfoWorld . February 12, 2001. p. 40. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
When Dan Cunningham, CEO of Dan's Chocolates, launched the online gourmet chocolate e-tail site, he made technology decisions based on the fact that the online business was part of a larger company
