Archive for May 31st, 2007
Southern Cali Mompreneur Joins Entrepreneur Magazine's Team
eMedia Wire: When Orange County mom, Bunmi Zalob, launched her online magazine last year, she never imagined that where it would take her. Now this mom of one is a featured blogger for Entrepreneur Magazine’s newest website, WomenEntrepreneur.com. The website, geared toward women business owners, offers timely articles, business news, and articles by nine featured [...]
Mom Combines Parenting With Her Passion For Jewelry
InsideToronto.com: Her story is not unlike most moms trying to balance a career with motherhood, except Karen Lamont’s has a twist – a citrus twist. When the 36-year-old mom to two little girls, age five and three, returned to her job as VP of a marketing company after her second daughter was born, she discovered [...]
Systemax Pursuit 4155 Series Notebook
Entrepreneur: You don’t have to break the bank to get some of the recent technology innovations all neatly packaged in a portable notebook computer. The Systemax Pursuit 4155 Series Notebook features a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor to help you eke out the most performance and power savings on the go. The 15.4-inch screen [...]
New Yahoo Publisher PayPal Options
As seen in the post “Your Pal, My Pal, PayPal”, Yahoo! Publisher Network Webmasters and Publishers…… can now choose to pay through Pay Pal Transfers. Michael Mattis, Blog Editor at Yahoo! Publishers Network’s official blog writes, “Today at Yahoo! Publisher Network we’re pleased, and I mean pleased, to announce that publishers in our network now [...]
The New Retirement: Katie Doyle
Startup Journal: A 30-year career in corporate marketing turned out to be the perfect platform for Katie Doyle’s second act: importing handicrafts from Africa to sell in the U.S. market. But unlike her career at Clorox Co. and McKesson Corp., where she was vice president of marketing before taking early retirement in 1998, Ms. Doyle’s [...]
Staying Safe While Shopping Online & eBay
Many of you have probably made a purchase from a Web site, and entered a credit card number to pay for it. It’s a fact of life these days that Internet shopping is very fast and convenient. But you need to be careful. There are a number of scams out there aimed at acquiring your [...]
eBay Aquires StubleUpon for $75Mil
Consumating a long-rumored deal, Internet auctioneer eBay agreed on Wednesday to acquire social bookmarking site StumbleUpon for $75 million. The popular San Francisco, California-based startup, with almost 2.5 million users and growing by 150 percent annually, allows users to approve or disapprove of websites and then guides them to other sites that users with similar [...]
Entrepreneur ‘Brags’ About Her Portable Photo Albums
Suburban Journals: Bridgeton resident Mary Nelson, a kitchen-table entrepreneur, has developed a new line of photo brag books, picture frames and more, all “handcrafted in the USA by Very Mary Designs,” the company she started with her husband, Carl. Nelson’s wares, which will be on sale at the upcoming Gypsy Caravan, have colorful cloth covers, [...]
Entrepreneur: Your most valuable business resources are your customers. You need a straightforward way to keep track of these valuable contacts, organize your information and stay on top of your client communications. Perennial contact management software favorite ACT! by Sage is now in its 2007 version for $230. ACT! features direct integration with Microsoft Outlook, [...]
Small Biz Owners On What It Takes To Succeed
Business Today: “Experience is a cruel teacher,” says Bill Vickery. “Effective, but cruel.” As the director of the Small Business Development Center in Cape Girardeau, Vickery is well acquainted with the risk of opening a new business. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, only about 44 percent make it through the first four years. [...]
Inventor Taking On Toiletries In Prisons
The Washington Post: Long-standing challenge: how to keep prison inmates from turning their toothbrushes and shaving razors into weapons. Unlikely man taking it on: Paul Biermann, an inventor at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, whose work to date has tended more toward fields such as biomechanics and outer space. Now, he proposes toothbrushes and [...]
Entrepreneur: GPS devices are some of the most sought-after tech gadgets, but the prices can be discouraging to business owners on a tight budget. At $350, the Magellan RoadMate 2000 is a cost-effective, entry-level GPS system. It comes with a touchscreen, detour rerouting capabilities, multi-destination routing, turn-by-turn voice guidance, 3-D bird’s-eye view, 1.3 million preprogrammed [...]
The Wall Street Journal: The toughest part of inventing isn’t solving problems. It’s figuring out which problems are worth the effort. “A few years ago, an inventor patented a device that caused an electric motor to rock a chair,” wrote Raymond F. Yates in 1942. “Now imagine, if you will, the sad spectacle of anybody [...]
