Archive for October 6th, 2005
Moms Turn Their Ideas Into Viable Businesses
Startup Journal: Missy Cohen-Fyffe’s business began when other moms gave her unsolicited feedback as she strolled down grocery-store aisles with her son riding in blanket-like protection in the shopping cart. “I just didn’t want my son biting on the gross, grimy metal,” she said of her Clean Shopper invention. Seven years and four employees later, [...]
Taking a Job vs. Starting A Business
One year ago today: While taking a job after graduation will get you exposure to the business world, it’s most likely not the kind of experience you need to be an entrepreneur. Starting a business is all about gumption, calculating risk, and ultimately taking responsibility for your own lively hood, and unfortunately there’s no way [...]
The Seattle Times: “If you need to invest $150, you should get something reasonable in return, whether it’s samples, catalogs or training materials,� she said. “If you have to pay $4,000 just for the right to recruit other salespeople, that’s a huge red flag.� Also, make sure there’s an actual product that’s being sold to [...]
My Real Job Starts at 5 PM Shirt
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How to Become a Celebrity in Your Field
Home Business Magazine: Large companies aspire to total market domination. Small businesses with a “slightly famous” strategy flourish by establishing themselves within a carefully selected segment of a market; they target a market niche that they can realistically hope to dominate. Market niches can be defined by region, by special customer needs, or by demographics, [...]
PaidContent: Weblogs Inc, the blog media company founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, is being bought by America Online, paidContent.org has learned from multiple sources. The deal is done and should be announced this week…(Updated: it might be announced tomorrow AM now.) Among the other companies Weblogs Inc talked to included the usual suspects: [...]
Ideas in Progress: Places that will sell you custom wrapped candy are common and, of course, custom decorated cakes are nothing new. The point of the M&M evolution is the change from a product that used to be a commodity into one with both a wide variety of “standard options” and that for a little [...]
