Archive for June 1st, 2007
StarTribune.com: Saylor Ratliff, 19 months, knew just what she wanted. When her mom, Krista Ratliff, parked her stroller outside and brought her into Hot Mama boutique on a rainy Friday morning, Saylor made a beeline for the big glass jar of animal crackers. Like the other toddlers in the bright yellow-and-red boutique, she soon was [...]
Richmond.com: FAT Cookie Whenever When-Dee Morrison’s husband landed a new client, she’d bake them a batch of her unusual homemade cookies. Morrison confesses that she never had all of the ingredients on hand, so she experimented with different mix-ins. “It was mad science,” she recalls. With the encouragement of happy clients and friends, the Morrisons [...]
The Reading Advocate: While her pies may smell and look good enough to eat, Leslie Gennari’s creations are best burned. That is because while they may look scrumptious they are actually candles. A Johnson and Wales hotel/restaurant management/culinary arts graduate, Gennari was looking online for a tart recipe one day when she came across these [...]
The New Retirement: Tasha High
Startup Journal: Sometimes, a firm push can mark the beginning of a new life in retirement. For Tasha High, now age 63, such a push has helped turn a lifelong passion into a burgeoning career. Ms. High was born in England. In 1967, at age 23, she boarded the Queen Elizabeth and set sail for [...]
Entrepreneurs Startups Magazine: Caroline Shengle, 46, and Lisa Beltezore, 34, are an inventor’s version of the Cinderella story. Beltezore was sick of having her shoes chewed up and her couch pillows carried into the backyard by her beloved canine companions. She and Shengle came up with a solution: They freeze dog treats into a block [...]
Laptops Replacing Conversation In Coffeehouses
The Capital Times: Graduate student and professional photographer Erick Danzer is a coffee shop junkie. One recent day he was at Electric Earth Cafe off Regent Street from 10 a.m. until it closed at 11 p.m. The next day he was at Michelangelo’s on State Street most of the day. Free wireless is the No. [...]
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: Linda Franzblau began the party as she always did: by introducing herself to the guests; telling them about Petlane and its products for dogs, cats and birds; and talking about her own dog, Rocket, and her cats, Dot and Dash. Then she came to the point where every party differs–meeting [...]
Charles City Press: The check in his hands wasn’t quite big enough for him to quit his day job, Gaylen Hicok said. But the meaning and feeling behind it is priceless. “It felt really good,� the 54-year-old rural Charles City man reported of receiving his first royalty check from an invention he had patented and [...]
