Archive for June 22nd, 2007
Pippin McGee Strives To Anticipate Customer Needs
Kids Today: Kim Crouchet, owner of Pippin McGee in Lafayette, La., got into the juvenile industry the same way many retailers did — when she and her husband, Robert, had children, she realized there was a void in her local market. “When we had our first child, we walked into Babies ‘R’ Us and had [...]
New Rules Ease Summertime 'Hecktivity'
Pahrump Valley Times: Along with Hubby and the boys, I looked forward to the end of the school year with enthusiasm. A brief reprieve from dragging the kids out of bed every morning would be wonderful. For a couple of months, I would not have to make breakfast while putting together bag lunches — or [...]
It Takes A Tough Mom To Make Tender Cookies
delawareonline: The delicious fragrance greets visitors as soon as they step onto the driveway of the Leishears’ home in Milton. The scent emanates from a nondescript building behind the garage. This is the home of Bella’s Cookies, Delaware’s only natural and organic cookie company. The beach-area business, located in farmland just minutes from busy Del. [...]
Entrepreneur.com: Moms know everything. They know where their kids left their socks, they know what time the carpool leaves, they know how to get a cranky 4-year-old through a shopping mall. Given their mastery of multitasking, is it any wonder mothers make such good business owners? It was motherhood itself that inspired Laurie McCartney to [...]
Inventors Target Health, Access
Associated Press: Owen Baser is at an age when most people are enjoying retirement. At 75, Baser is just getting started in his career as an inventor. He’s selling what he says is the first new type of door handle in more than 200 years – a design for those with physical difficulties. the Baser [...]
Stay-At-Home Mom Becomes Entrepreneur
San Diego Business Journal: Linda Byerline hates to admit that her business experience is self-taught. She was a stay-at-home mom with a nursing background when she posted an image of an extra cloth diaper she had made for her daughter on eBay. Four years later, Byerline runs Happy Heiny’s, which provides cloth diapers online and [...]
How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist
Wired: Craig Newmark started Craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco’s busy arts and technology scene. Despite (or perhaps because of) the site’s determined non-commercialism, Craigslist survived and even thrived in the post-dot-com days. Now 20 million people visit the site each month, viewing and self-publishing more than [...]
Money Magazine: Not every business kicks off with a breakthrough idea. Or any idea at all. This one grew out of a bond shared by three friends: Kelly Berger, Laura Ching and Ed Han. “We were always hanging out, always bantering over ideas,” recalls Han, who brought them together. He’d met Ching at business school, [...]
Airport Security Spurs Bag Sales
CNNMoney: Recently I flew from New York to Hamburg, Germany, with a short layover in London’s Heathrow airport. Since I was going only for a couple of days, I had no checked-in luggage; even so, British regulations require that anyone transferring flights has to go through security again, so I got in the long line [...]
