Archive for July 20th, 2007
Hi, this is Dane Carlson. Thank you for reading the Business Opportunities Weblog. This voice post is sponsored by the HP iPAQ and was written by Charrise McCrorey of Emergence Business Coaching.
The Herald News: If Chris Frattini says “whatever,” she’s not blowing you off, she’s describing what she will do for you. Frattini started her Whatever Errands and Concierge personal assistant business May 1 after 16 years as a saleswoman and six years of being a full-time mom. The 37-year-old Plainfield woman got the idea after [...]
Phone Company Puts WAHM Through "Ringer"
KWGN-TV: New mom Kristen Johnson runs a business from home, which requires tons of time on long distance and the internet. So she thought Vonage, the “voice over internet protocol” or VoIP service, would be perfect for her. “It was the cheapest and they advertised no annual contract, reliable service, money-back guarantee so I felt [...]
CNet: Arrr, me mateys! Let’s walk the plank, and then watch as your keys rise up while you sink like a stone. Designed for seafaring boaters, the Key Buoy makes losing your keys in murky waters a thing of the past. It’s an idea that’s been floating around some time, but now that it’s real, [...]
CNet: ReadEzy apparently takes on the challenge of gripping any type of book, from tomes to textbooks. Two polycarbonate leaf springs hold the open novel in place along the lower edge, leaving the reader handsfree, with only one hand required to flip the pages. This was, unsurprisingly, designed by a student, Macquarie University’s David Wild, [...]
From Home Business To Million-Dollar Firm
StartUp Journal: For Lindsay Holt, starting a business two years ago with her new husband already has paid off in an end run around maternal guilt. For years, as a single mom working for a catalog company in the San Francisco Bay area, she used to leave for work before her daughter Danni, then in [...]
Kicking The Bottle To Go Green
ABC News: At the Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., customers can indulge in baked quail, grilled squab and wines from around the world. But if bottled water — a fine-dining fixture — is your libation of choice, you’re out of luck. The eatery is joining a growing list of restaurants kicking the bottle for [...]
CNet: This seems like a good idea, until you forget it’s there and lift your hands up. And if you have a steaming cuppa Java on it… Ooh boy. Still, a nice idea by designer Duck Young Kong whom we’re guessing is either a desktop-chained Dilbert, or someone seriously seeking real estate space amid the [...]
Keep Company Secrets Under Lock And Key
Inc.: If you’re worried about competitors picking up on your next big idea, you might consider a new software program designed to help entrepreneurs prepare professional confidentiality agreements — and save money on legal fees. ConfidentialityWizard, from Neustel Software, is a do-it-yourself program that simplifies the process for business owners who need to produce non-disclosure [...]
Entrepreneur Brings Windmills To Backyards
USA Today: Andy Kruse closes his eyes and sees windmills in backyards across America. Well, not every backyard. Hard to imagine wind turbines on the cheek-by-jowl lots of many U.S. suburbs. But Kruse and his partner, David Calley, who co-founded Southwest Windpower 21 years ago, are determined to bring their Skystream 3.7 to semi-suburban and [...]
The Associated Press: Holiday weeks and peak vacation periods can be a trying time for small-business owners, especially if they haven’t formulated a policy about employee time off. This scenario will probably sound painfully familiar to many company owners: Several staffers all want the same day or week off, and when the boss says yes [...]
