Archive for June 24th, 2004

Reader Survey, Again

If you answered the survey before, please ignore it. If not, I’m trying to gain a better understanding of my readers, and would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thank you. Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender Female Male [...]

 

Working at Home

The Entrepreneurial Mind: “Home offices are certainly nothing new. I have had one on and off for most of my career. But with the boom in business formation, more and more new entrepreneurs are following this age old bootstrapper’s tradition of starting their business out of their home. According to the Wall Street Journal’s on-line [...]

 

Cuba’s Old Cars

Miami Herald: “Barely a travel article about Cuba is published without a mention of the vintage 1950s Chevrolets, Fords, Plymouths and Buicks that add so much color and tourist appeal to the island. But few Americans have thought of the old gas-guzzlers as a business opportunity. Rick Shnitzler, founder of TailLight Diplomacy (TLD), says Cuban [...]

 

Profile of a Mystery Shopper

The Wall Street Journal profiles a former investment-bank employee turned mystery shopper and actually tries to make the career sound exciting. Her morning jobs were equally trying. She went dress shopping, stopped into a bank to cash a check and visited a Saturn dealership to look at new cars. After golf, she was headed to [...]

 

When They Were Your Age

I’m really behind! Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age: At age 28: The Danish physicist Niels Bohr published his revolutionary theory of the atom. French novelist George Sand published her first novel, Indiana. Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof of Warsaw invented the artificial language Esperanto. British physician Thomas Wakley began publishing The Lancet. Jamaican [...]

 

Complaint Filed Against MaggieMoo’s

A reader sent in this complaint that has been filed in the United States District Court (District of Maryland) against MaggieMoo’s International, LLC.