Archive for June 22nd, 2004

Learning Express

→ learningexpress.com At Learning Express you’ll find the widest selection of toys, must-have gifts all year round and unique and innovative products that encourage learning through play, including games and puzzles, developmental toys, arts and crafts kits, science and nature products, construction toys, dolls, and much, much more. Creative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit set [...]

 

India: The New Land of Opportunity

Business 2.0: “It’s a global economy — so quit whining about outsourcing. India’s booming middle class has $420 billion to spend. Here’s how to grab your share.” via Anil Dash’s Daily Links.

 

Kissing Babies No More

Fresh Inc.: “As the presidential campaign season chugs along, I’ve come to realize that the time-honored tradition of candidates kissing babies has been replaced by candidates kissing up to the small business community. Along the way, it seems, somebody realized that babies aren’t swing voters…”

 

Escaping Telephone Customer Service Hell

Ask Gizmodo: You did hit zero when first dialing, too, didn’t you? That’s usually a quick way to bypass all the menus and get to a human operator, which should be your first goal. Now you might think your goal from here is to talk to a manager. This is a mistake — the manager [...]

 

Entrepreneurs in Space

Small Business Trends: Today marked history for space travel. Planet Earth saw its very first commercial, non-governmental manned flight into space, by a craft aptly named SpaceShipOne. OK, so it did not go very far nor last very long. But that doesn’t make the flight any less momentous. What’s so special is how entrepreneurial it [...]