Archive for May 11th, 2007
Cleaning Business Was "Natural" For Pair
St. Petersburg Times: Natalie Kelly was looking for a way to spend more time with her 10-year-old son when she stumbled across a small-business idea. It not only smelled good, she thought, but it was also good for the planet. Her business, Home Therapy Cleaning Service, uses only nontoxic, all-natural plant-based cleaning products enhanced with [...]
Mother-Daughter Businesses Make Mt. Lebanon's Washington Road Home
Post-Gazette.com: They are business partners who love and trust one another, and who are, in many cases, best friends who live a stone’s throw apart. Open and honest, they engage in vibrant, disagreements without threat of damaging their strong bond. Does one partner have a doctor’s appointments? No problem. The other takes over. Is a [...]
Baby Dagny Helps Parent Entrepreneurs Market Their Inventions
PR Web: Baby Dagny, your destination for unique baby gifts, announced the expansion of it’s Invented by Parents program, which focuses on helping parent-entrepreneurs bring their inventions to the marketplace. This expansion increases the resources needed to bring parents unique and exciting inventions to fruition. “It’s a really exciting area that we love being involved [...]
Skypes Joost Raised $45 Million in Funding
Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service. Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube; Index Ventures, an early investor in Skype; Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon; and CBS, the US [...]
Mpires Widgets Helping eBay & Amazon
Mpire has launched widgets for eBay and Amazon affiliates that incorporate the company’s meta-shopping data into Web sites, blogs and social network profiles. Mpire’s collection of over 75 widgets gives free access to packaged Amazon and eBay shopping trend results across 15 popular categories, such as entertainment, sports, fashion, technology, games and youth/teens. By inserting [...]
New Phishing Scams Still Fooling eBayers
What do you do when you receive an email from an online financial company that you regularly deal with, informing you about the completion of a transaction that you never did in the first place? There’s a good chance you might lose your senses for a short while. That’s exactly what people behind this new [...]
eBay Considering StubleUpon Buyout
Auction website eBay is reported to be in talks to buy social networking recommendation site StumbleUpon for $75m. Both companies have refused to comment on the speculation, but talks are thought to be nearing a critical stage. A decision is expected within the next few weeks, according to reports on Reuters. StumbleUpon uses recommendations from [...]
Least Exciting Businesses Often Most Lucrative
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: Whenever I speak to groups of individuals who’d like to start their own businesses, they typically express interest in exciting or glamorous choices. They’re likely to want to open a gourmet restaurant or bed-and-breakfast, create cutting-edge consumer electronics, become a wedding planner or a golf pro. After all, who [...]
Finding, Capturing A Niche Market
Kansas City Star: The long tail may be calling for your business. “There is a mass market, but there are lots and lots of small niches. With the Internet, you have the opportunity to capture into demand that doesn’t have the volume that popular items do,� said Kissan Joseph, associate professor and a Stockton Research [...]
Altoona Mirror: Herb Wyland hopes an old softball injury will lead to a successful business venture. After undergoing surgery on his throwing shoulder in 2000, Wyland wanted to find a way to play catch without a teammate. A paddleball Wyland’s wife, Loretta, gave him sparked an idea. “If I could attach a ball to a [...]
Stix Figures Throw Opportunity At Entrepreneur
District Chronicles: Anyone with opposable thumbs and a pencil can draw a stick figure, but not many people would turn that simple drawing into a lucrative clothing line; but one exists. Stix Bristol, a native New Yorker, began vending his clothing line, Stix-N-Phrases, out of the trunk of his car nearly four years ago. Currently, [...]
“Kidpreneurs” Headed to Disney World
Inc.: An annual business education program for young, African-American entrepreneurs opens this week at Walt Disney World’s Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., organizers said Tuesday. The Black Enterprise Kidpreneur/Teenpreneur Conference aims to give young people all the tools required to run a successful small businesses, including workshops geared towards would-be entrepreneurs [...]
