Archive for July 24th, 2007
Magazine Born Out Of Publisher's Experiances As Mom
The Coloradoan: Get Born magazine is a labor of love for Heather Janssen. Janssen, a former junior high English teacher who is now a stay-at-home mom of four daughters, wanted to create a magazine to share her experiences as a mom. “I wanted a place where I felt it was safe to be uncompromising about [...]
Mom Closes Sweet Pea Boutique After 3 Years In Business
Redding.com: Angie Harnden has run her baby boutique for three years, but she’s hanging up her baby bonnets and moving them to her mom’s store this month. She said she plans to close Sweet Pea Baby Boutique by the end of the month and find a new tenant to rent the storefront at 1354 Market [...]
Sewing Up A Profitable Business
Leelanau Enterprise: Lizzi Lambert was a stay-at-home mom in Leelanau Township when the bottom fell out of her husband’s aviation business. “It was just after 9/11, aviation slowed and many airlines closed,” Lambert said. “So I decided to go back to work.” She turned to something she knew: sewing. Lambert’s mother had owned and operated [...]
Springwise: Bucking the trend of ever-expanding dining portions, Chicago-based Minnies is out to prove that bigger isn’t always better. Featuring a wide selection of bite-size gourmet burgers and sandwiches—including traditional favorites such as grilled cheese and Reubens, alongside the more inventive Mykonos (roast chicken, tzaziki sauce and kalamata tapenade) and Thanksgiving delight (roast turkey, cranberries [...]
Springwise: Umpqua, an Oregon-based bank, recently launched their Lemonaire campaign aimed at helping ‘really small entrepreneurs’ start their first business: a lemonade stand. After completing an application, children can pick up a free Umpqua Lemonade Starter Kit. The kits include cups, napkins, a sticker, table cover, small business guide (‘How to Become a Lemonaire’) and [...]
CNet: According to the folks behind the BuddhaPad, this claims to be the only mouse pad in the world where rubbing Buddha’s jolly belly with your mouse will bless you with happiness, prosperity and good fortune. While this seems like something you’d pick up cheap at the hawker stalls outside Bangkok’s numerous temples, then again, [...]
Amateur Inventor Helps NASA Design Gloves For Astronauts
MSNBC: Peter Homer, an unemployed engineer, read on NASA’s website about a challenge in which participants were invited to design a glove for astronauts. Gloves are the hardest part of a space suit to design. Like the rest of the suit, they’re pressurised, but that means that each finger of the glove wants to stay [...]
CNet: Everything’s going wireless these days, including the humble padlock. So if you’re tired of digging out those keys, the Remote Control Padlock conveniently works in tandem with a keychain remote. All you have to do is point, hit the button, and voila. For those distrustful of anything wireless, this gizmo claims to have four [...]
Mouse With Click Frequency Counter
CNet: From the folks who gave us the GhostRader and SushiDisks comes a mouse that counts. Which should immediately quell questions on why any sane techie would want to keep count of their mouse clicks. There’s simply no good reason when it comes to SolidAlliance. Just for the, er, record, the Yamaraco counter mouse Agi [...]
Business Bootcamp For Vets A Hit
Inc.: As a result of high demand, Syracuse University’s new entrepreneurship bootcamp for disabled veterans will be accepting applications for upcoming sessions on a rolling basis, organizers said. “The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities,” which was launched by the university’s Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises program at the Whitman School of Management, offers disabled veterans [...]
Protecting Yourself Against Scams and Crooks
Entrepreneur.com: It’s a common story, yet it breaks my heart every time someone tells me their version: An aspiring inventor sends his or her product to an invention promotion company, pays a large fee (often their entire savings) and gets nothing in return. Not only have they been embarrassed, but they’ve also been depleted of [...]
