Archive for June 13th, 2007
Business Spotlight: Travel With Kj
OC Register: My Web site works just like the highly advertised travel sites and offers flights, hotels, rental cars, vacation packages, cruises, travel insurance, event tickets, golf tee times and more. The Web site is powered by Travelocity and has competitive prices. Why did you start this business: As a new stay-at-home mom, I was [...]
Internet-Based Company Helps Frugal Moms Live Well For Less
St. James News: Having a baby is an exciting time for prospective parents, but it can be hard on the family budget. No matter how well you prepare, unexpected expenses are bound to pop up. Kim Danger, formerly of St. James, parlayed her interest in saving money on baby gear into a full time internet [...]
SharperImage: Is there a stress epidemic? It seems so! With the frenetic pace of today’s world, many of us accumulate so much stress during the day that it can be difficult to quiet our minds at bedtime. The result? We hold on to our stress — even while sleeping — and the grip of stress [...]
eBay’s A Party Pooper and Drops Google Ads
According to Scot Wingo, CEO of Channeladvisor and author of eBay Strategies (and I just comfirmed by checking a handful of keywords as well), eBay has pulled their Adwords advertising from Google. Apparently this is due to a Google Checkout Party being held at eBay Live. Here is a snip from Scot’s post: The big [...]
Small Firms Look to Hedge Costs
StartUp Journal: A growing number of small-business owners are using devices like derivatives to protect themselves against risks they previously considered unavoidable, such as bad weather or soaring gas prices. Derivatives come in many forms. Among the most common are futures contracts, which rise and fall in tandem with the value of commodities such as [...]
Frustration Is The Father Of Invention
The Journal Gazette: Jeffrey Martzall took his idea and self-produced it until his company grew to the point where he needed an outside manufacturer to keep up with demand. As a junior at University of Texas-Pan American home for vacation, Martzall got his idea after an excursion on his family’s boat in Lake Chapman near [...]
In The Next Cubicle May Be Budding Entrepreneur
Orlando Sentinel: Once upon a time, Jennifer Sloane used to come home after a hard day at her Winter Park law practice and relax. Then she became an entrepreneur. Now, after a typical workday, Sloane finds herself in front of her home computer, either working on her startup company or catching up on legal work [...]
Entrepreneur Looking To Clean Up
The Philadelphia Inquirer: A tiny company thinks it can make a tidy profit in the 25-billion-washload-a-year liquid-laundry-detergent business, a battlefield dominated by Procter & Gamble Co. and other titans of industry. The company, Cot’nWash Inc., is small, indeed. There’s a chief executive, Jonathan Propper; a chief financial officer, Thomas Crawford; and a brand manager, Remy [...]
SBA Says It’s Ready For A Katrina This Year
BizJournals: The Small Business Administration spent the first day of hurricane season putting the final touches on a comprehensive disaster response plan and delivering it to Congress. “It will be up there by the end of the day,” SBA Administrator Steven Preston said June 1. Three weeks earlier, more than 30 SBA employees gathered together [...]
Los Angeles Times: Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert died at his [...]
