Archive for February 1st, 2005
Entrepreneur: John Osher has developed hundreds of consumer products, including an electric toothbrush that became America’s best-selling toothbrush in just 15 months. He also started several successful companies, including Cap Toys. He built sales to $125 million per year and then sold the company to Hasbro Inc. in 1997. But his most lasting contribution to [...]
Matchmaking – From The Front Seat of a Taxi
Canada.com: For the lovelorn who are burned out by the bar scene, fed up with personal ads or tired of scouring the Internet, there’s another place to look for that perfect date: the back seat of a taxicab. Specifically, Ahmed Ibrahim’s cab. The 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant sets up blind dates for his single passengers through [...]
Roger McNamee: Wake up and smell the coffee. This is not your father’s economy. And it’s not the boom that inflated our expectations and then exploded. But it’s also not the doom and gloom we’ve been mired in for nearly three years now! So, wake up. Pull yourself together. Get on with it. With what [...]
The Reality of Owning A Bed and Breakfast
Startup Journal: “I was friendly with a couple that left their corporate jobs to run an inn in the lake country of Wisconsin. They imagined themselves serving elegant breakfasts and shooing guests off to the lakeside. The unpleasant reality was getting up at 3 a.m. in frigid weather to jump-start an ancient furnace and an [...]
eBay Raises Commissions to Affiliates
AuctionBytes: “eBay is reportedly increasing commissions it pays to affiliates, people who drive bidders and buyers to its site. As of February 1, 2005, eBay will increase the rewards from the previous $12 – $30 range per new user to $20 – $45 for each new user. A new user, or ‘active registration,’ is defined [...]
