Archive for December 22nd, 2004
Unique Wine Store Success Story
Business Week: During his career as an award-winning sommelier, Joshua Wesson always seemed to field the same, simple question from thirsty patrons — “What does it taste like?” So in 1996, with co-founder Richard Marmet, he launched a wine store based on that very principle. The result has been a growing, nine-location chain called Best [...]
Startup Capital Needed in Mozambique for Micro Business
I get the most interesting emails from entrepreneurs all over the world. Antonio Tauzene wrote: I’m a 44years old Mozambican looking for some help to start my business. Based in Maputo, I know that with a 15-seater mini-bus, I can make an average income of a million Meticais/day, which is about US$50. This is very [...]
Small Business Trends: Entrepreneur magazine offers its list of top 8 trends for 2005, compiled by writer Laura Tiffany. It’s very much a U.S. retail, consumer-culture oriented list, and in that sense is fairly limited, but still useful: Authenticity – Authenticity has to rank right up there right underneath “blog” as word of the year, [...]
Business Week: Most college students look forward to winter break as a time to sleep, indulge in home-cooked meals, and recover from the fall semester’s final exams. Mark Prondzinski has different plans. Over the next three weeks, the Babson College sophomore will be coding a shopping-cart software program, finalizing the technology for a new online [...]
