Archive for July 10th, 2007
South Jersey Life: Since two Philadelphia women launched the mother of all Web sites last year, MomSpace has grown from a local start-up into a national resource. Joani Reisen and Erica Rubach, both mothers of two, founded the Drexel Hill-based MomSpace on the idea that “Moms trust other moms,” Reisen said. “The purpose of the [...]
Hawaii Business Magazine: The Hawaiian Lei Co., which went live in April 2005, was supposed to be a quiet little e-commerce business that stay-at-home mom Summer Campos could operate in her “spare” time. In other words, when her two young daughters were asleep. It may seem naive to think that a young mother could single-handedly [...]
Entrepreneur: Stephanie Sloim spent almost two years trying to start a business after she moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2005. Though she had owned businesses before, finding one that would also allow her to spend time with her kids proved to be too much of a challenge, so she decided to find part-time work. But [...]
The Browser: A few years ago, when the price of wireless airtime plummeted, wireless executives sometimes talked about customers who used pairs of mobile phones as baby monitors. Now along comes Babble Soft, an upstart that can turn a number of so-called “smartphones? into a different sort of baby monitor. (Company founder Aruni Gunasegaram, a [...]
Smart Decisions in Less Than 60 Seconds
Steve Pavlina: Sometimes we face tough decisions that involve one or more unknowns. We can’t know in advance what the consequences of each alternative will be. This is especially true of big decisions like quitting a job, entering or exiting a relationship, or moving to a new city. Let me give you a very simple [...]
Inventor Taking Shot With Invention
Tribune-Review: The Golf Channel hopes to give inventors their shot at fortune in a new production, “Fore Inventors Only,” premiering Tuesday night. “I’m taking a shot, but it’s a chance I have to take,” inventor John Yakopcic said. Yakopcic’s invention, Aqua Caddy, is a portable water container that features a slotted opening to clean irons [...]
Five Things About Procrastination
Psychology Today: There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance. 1. Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators. For them procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a [...]
Make Sure There’s News In Your News Release
USA Today: Q: I send news releases to my local paper all the time and they never respond to them. I have a wonderful floral business and I want to attract the attention of the editor so that he might write a feature article on my company. How do I get the attention of the [...]
