Archive for June 12th, 2007
Stay-At-Home Mom’s Dream Job? House-Flipping
KansasCity.com: Alissa Blake wants to buy the ugliest house on the block. The stay-at-home mom is in the process of starting her own house-flipping business in Prairie Village. “Houses in this area (Prairie Village) have two-car garages, two baths and two incomes paying for them, but no time for the owners to do projects,” she [...]
The "Mommy Stigma": Well and Alive in the Business World
The Huffington Post: A few weeks ago I quit my job as a managing director with a venture firm to launch my own company and become a full-time entrepreneur. Once I was ready to go public with the actual business I was starting, I went to have lunch with one of the people who had [...]
We Have A Purpose, A Calling, And A Goal
American Chronicle: Early on in life, I knew I would have children. It is often the dream of young girls to some day grow up and be just like their mom. We are taught to play with dolls and to play house, we nurture, and if we have younger siblings we are asked to contribute [...]
Baker Takes The Cake When It Comes To Edible Hedonism
The Chronicle: At the age of four, Janice Paulino was poking her fingers into her mom’s homemade desserts — cakes, pies, cookies — you name it, her mother baked it — usually under the watchful eye of hungry neighbourhood kids. In fact, little Janice was lucky if she could get more than a fingerful of [...]
Mom Launches Online Resource To Create The Perfect Dorm Room
PR Leap: In the summer of 2006, Atlantan Woody Yeomans, the founder and creative mastermind behind the new Woodhouse Collection was preparing her daughter to be a freshman at the University of Mississippi. “I was helping Taylor get ready to move into her first dorm room, and of course, she wanted to have the ‘perfect [...]
Marubeni Infotec Wooden Keyboard
ubergizmo: A wooden keyboard? Sounds like something Gepetto would have made for Pinocchio. Anyways, such an input peripheral actually exists courtesy of Marubeni Infotec. This wooden keyboard comes with less than a hundred keys – 89 to be exact. It hooks up to your computer via USB 2.0, and comes with a trio of LED [...]
The New York Times: These days, Google seems to be doing everything, everywhere. It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft’s software dominance. But at its core, Google remains a search engine. And [...]
The Perfect Chair by Human Touch
Sharper Image: The vision was to create a chair so extraordinary it could be called the “perfect chair™.”It artfully blends the aesthetics of contemporary architecture, traditional furniture-making craftsmanship, and the modern science of human ergonomics. By integrating their unique zero-gravity technology with the most sumptuous natural materials, the human touch™ designers created a neutral body-posture [...]
Is Your Company a Cezanne or a Picasso?
Fast Company: As the final speaker at the HSM World Innovation Forum yesterday, Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer, author, and Fast Company profilee, gave an interesting talk on two types of creativity, inspired by a book by David Galenson on Cezanne and Picasso. Galenson writes that Picasso, a conceptual innovator, pretty much knew what [...]
The Future of Interactive Advertising
Fast Company: The face of the advertising industry has changed dramatically over the last few years, as the Internet has become increasingly dominant and has shouldered its way into the mainstream. Although advertising professionals are still inevitably grappling with the notion of how best to harness the power and peculiarities of the Web in order [...]
Testing the Marketability Of Your Product Idea
StartUp Journal: Dreaming up a useful product idea is pretty easy. The hard part is figuring out whether you can actually sell it at a competitive price, have a viable distribution channel and enough people willing to buy it. Conducting market research isn’t exactly cheap. If your idea is truly innovative, you’ll want to consult [...]
Business Fills Niche In Cleaning Industry
Capital Times: Resist the temptation of dipping a corner of your napkin into a water glass to rub the ketchup spill on your blouse. “A mistake that a lot of people make is not using enough water to flush through a stain,” says Liz Barbatelli, owner of a Milwaukee laundry that specializes in fine linens [...]
