Archive for June 18th, 2007
Guardian Angels Watch Over This Business
Weekend Entrepreneur: Becky DeYoung wanted to start a home-based business. When I asked her if she had a mentor she told me, “I don’t consider people as mentors but as guardian angels above and here on Earth. My mom’s sister Suzie died in 2004. She was so full of life, and we had a very [...]
Baby Swags Sends Shiloh Jolie-Pitt A 1st Birthday Gift
eMediaWire: Baby Swags has teamed up with four upcoming work-at-home mom companies to provide one-year-old celebrity baby, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt with a birthday basket consisting of hand crafted and mom-inspired products. Baby Swags, and the companies that participated in this gift basket, just love and respect Angelina Jolie for all her humanitarian work and wanted to [...]
Word Spreads About Mom's Cookies
The Marietta Times: Angela Malone makes her home on Whipple Run Road with husband, Keith, and five home-schooled children — four of them girls. “I told the girls, ‘let’s make some cookies and try to sell them downtown,’” Malone said. They apparently didn’t have to try too hard because their first sale was a big [...]
Money Magazine: In 2004, Kyle and Aaron Campos, both software engineers, quit their jobs in Santa Barbara and decamped to Buckeye, Ariz. After visiting relatives there earlier that year, Kyle had become convinced that the town was “filled with wide-open opportunities,” especially compared with the software biz. “The tech sector was getting hit hard,” says [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Finally, a mobile phone I can abuse without guilt. I’ve always made good use of the insurance coverage purchased with most phones. At least three of the gadgets have gone over the side of sailboats. One died after I left it on the roof of my car and drove off. And my [...]
Yahoo Tech: LogMeIn works over a regular web connection. You install the host software on the machine you’d like to control, and you needn’t install anything on the client PC. Just visit the LogMeIn web site, log in, and the list of computers you have LogMeIn installed on pops up. Select one, then log in [...]
Five Commandments Of Invention
United Inventors Association: 1. Stay away from invention marketing companies that advertise on radio and late night TV. 2. Keep good records about your idea . . . some day they may be the back up you need to prove YOUR idea is YOURS! 3. Go to a Patent Depository Library and do your own [...]
Timbuk2 Small Custom Laptop Messenger
Business 2.0 Magazine: Talk about individuality. Timbuk2 lets you custom-build your bag: Small, medium, or large? In subtle gray or deep gold? Want an external smartphone holster or an iPod case for an extra $20? The shoulder strap and pad are easily adjustable, making the lightweight bag that much more comfortable to carry. Along with [...]
San Antonio Express News: Van Williams, owner of Envision Film and Video, left KENS-TV confident he could run a successful production company filling orders for corporate video projects and commercials. The plan worked, but in short order Williams’ portfolio encompassed much more. Little did Williams know that the company he launched in 2001 would become [...]
Kids’ Invention Rocks and Scoops
The New York Times: Necessity being the mother of invention, is it any wonder the Pooper Scooper Plow 2000 was born at Birch Lane Elementary School — conceived by a group of students, no less? The school sits near John J. Burns Park, an expanse of playing fields that is a favorite destination of geese [...]
Inventor Never Thought Name Would Fly
Associated Press: Wham-O Inc. changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago, flinging a new word into the cultural ether that still conjures images of carefree fun in the park and breezy days at the beach. And to think Walter “Fred” Morrison, the inventor of the beloved disc, thought the new [...]
