Archive for July 11th, 2007
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Business
The New York Times: Throughout her entrepreneurial career, Talia Mashiach has pursued another daunting activity besides starting companies: having children, four at last count. And she’s only 30. Enough’s enough, right? Wrong. She’d like to have a few more. This is good news for people who worry about the dwindling Jewish birth rate, but really. [...]
Jewish Light Online: Owning a business is tough. Raising children is even tougher, but Internet businesses provide more of a flexible time schedule, giving busy moms a little more leeway during their day. On top of having three triplet daughters to keep her busy, Sara Zigman recently launched her new children’s furnishing business, Three Little [...]
Encouragement And Motivation Available For Single Moms
PR.com: Sadly, single moms are left to wear many different hats, fulfill many responsibilities and encounter many different obstacles. “As single moms, we find ourselves, alone, afraid, ashamed, overworked, sleep deprived, discouraged and often under appreciated and stereotyped.” explains Christina Nolan, owner and author at ‘Refuge for a Single Mom’. “As a single mom myself, [...]
USA Today: Q: Do you believe that an entrepreneur can suffer from burnout? For 23 years I have owned a successful health and fitness center. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for the clients and customers that I have and for the money I make. However, for the past few years I have had [...]
Entrepreneur Club Attracting Fat Cat Inventions
Capital Newspapers: For Heidi Goehring of Madison, the path to being an inventor began with one fat cat. Five years ago, she took in the younger of her two cats for its one-year check-up and found it weighed a hefty 15 pounds. “The vet said, ‘If you want this cat alive you need to drastically [...]
Why Workers Declare Their ‘Independence’
USA Today: Stories about billionaire entrepreneurs might make you think people start businesses solely to get rich. But that’s not their main driver, I’ve found after years of talking to entrepreneurs. Now, comes a new survey that backs me up. The folks at Discover’s small-business credit card asked small-business owners about independence. That was the [...]
Interns Help Build Your Business
Rhonda Abrams at USA Today: Look around and you’ll notice many college interns at businesses — especially big corporations — this summer. There’s a good reason: the competition to hire quality college graduates is intense, and one way to recruit future employees is by hiring them as interns while still in school. Even for small [...]
Study Tracks Veterans In Business
USA Today: Veterans who go into business ownership tend to be better educated and older than other entrepreneurs, the Census Bureau says in its first study of entrepreneurship among veterans. The findings are timely as thousands of vets return to the U.S. from Iraq, Afghanistan and other locales to resume work. Many are likely to [...]
