Archive for August 27th, 2006
Mobile Dentistry: Filling New Needs
International Herald Tribune: The mobile units are owned by On-Site Dental NV, a Las Vegas company founded seven years ago by Chris Davenport, who is not a dentist, but an entrepreneur. His company’s basic service combines technology, mobility and the American reverence for saving time. On-Site Dental owns two trailers, each fitted with two dental [...]
Dog Walking: Jobs That Cost Nothing to Start
Jeffrey Strain: I had a discussion with a friend this past weekend. He was trying to convince me that in order to start a business today, it costs a lot of money. While I will concede that it can cost a lot of money to begin a wide variety of businesses, there are also many [...]
Bad Business Advice that Needs to Go
Alexander Kjerulf: Much well-known business advice is sadly obsolete but can still be found in articles, business books and, not least, in daily use in the workplace. It seems that some companies are still guided by thinking that is sadly out of date – if it was ever true to begin with. The worst of [...]
Washington Post: Textbook prices are soaring into the hundreds of dollars, but in some courses this fall, students won’t pay a dime. The catch: Their textbooks will have ads for companies including FedEx Kinko’s and Pura Vida coffee. Selling ad space keeps newspapers, magazines, Web sites and television either cheap or free. But so far, [...]
Vintage Clothing Craze Driving Prices Up
WhittierDailyNews: No, it’s not your imagination. Prices for merchandise at vintage thrift shops have gone through the roof in recent years, giving new meaning to the term “thrift shop.” Sarah Bergman, manager of The Way We Wore, a high-end vintage shop on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, said demand for vintage is the highest [...]
Please Don’t Make Me Go on Vacation
New York Times: Somewhere on a faraway beach, a cellphone rings, a BlackBerry buzzes, a laptop beeps. It is an electronic requiem for the American vacation. “I never go on vacation,� said Ellen Kapit, a real estate agent in Manhattan. “And when I do, I have my computer, my Palm, my e-mail and my phone [...]
Dave Cheong: Given a task, there are essentially two ways we can approach it. Either, we can work as hard as we can until it is “done� or we can fix the amount of time we have available and do the “best� we can. The latter approach is known as “time boxing“. Time boxing is [...]
Young Entrepreneur Plans Kids’ Zoo Trip
Arizona Republic: Raising money for charity usually involves asking other people for donations of money or items for a raffle or auction. Taylor Berey, on the other hand, is taking matters into his own hands Рliterally. The seventh-grader at Altade̱a Middle School in Ahwatukee Foothills has been baking and selling organic dog treats to [...]
Internet Entrepreneurs Plead Pluto’s Case
London Free Press: Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 “Pluto is a planet” T-shirts on the Internet. Robinson, who said she “rolled her eyes” after Pluto got the boot, hopes her buyers will send a message that kicking out the far-out rock is downright goofy. Robinson [...]
