Archive for September 10th, 2007
The Enquirer: Rebecca Walker – founder, co-owner and president of VeilShop.com – was inspired to become a business owner after watching her mother run her own orthodontics lab while growing up in Fairfield. “I liked the lifestyle flexibility it offered her and the time it gave her to spend with the family,” said Walker, 46. [...]
Endicott Company Hiring WAHMs For Part-Time Work
PressConnects.com: It could be just another day at the “office” for any of the 67 employees out of goFluent’s Endicott office who work part time from home, fine-tuning the English language skills of clients in such countries as Russia, Italy and France. Many international companies want their workers abroad to improve their English fluency for [...]
Future Web Trends: Semantic Web
ReadWriteWeb: Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for a Semantic Web has been The Next Big Thing for a long time now. Indeed it’s become almost mythical, like Moby Dick. In a nutshell, the Semantic Web is about machines talking to machines. It’s about making the Web more ‘intelligent’, or as Berners-Lee himself described it: computers “analyzing [...]
Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick
Associated Press: Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64. Roddick, who died at a hospital in Chichester, had revealed in February that she contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion while giving birth to a daughter in [...]
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TechnaBob: Bulbs Unlimited sells kits that let you create fixtures like the ones pictured here from your own recycled bulbs. The kits include everything you need to make these cool designer fixtures except for the bulbs themselves. A special bulb marking template, adhesive and âsnapsâ? let you arrange your bulbs into a variety of cool [...]
Fast Company: What kind of job did you have at 17? I posed that question to the grown-ups I encountered recently while exploring Whateverlife.com. The teen-girl site and company was started by Ashley Qualls, an entrepreneur from a working-class neighborhood outside Detroit, who happens to be 17 herself. One of the many fascinating things about [...]
Terri Lonier at Working Solo eNews: The Inc. 500 list has just been published, and every year I find it intriguing to chart how many firms are SOHO (small office/home office) companies — generally defined as having 20 or fewer employees. This year, nearly one in four (23%, or 115 companies)are members of the SOHO [...]
BloggingStocks.com: Most young companies dream of getting their first heavyweight customer — a huge player, central to their industry, like Google Inc., or better yet, a General Electric. Snaring such a customer can change an entrepreneur’s fortunes overnight. Of course. But how do you gain the attention and trust of a large and important company? [...]
Inventor Leads Way In Graffiti Busting
PendleToday: Ray Britner transformed himself from tree feller to inventor after an accident which left him with sight in just one eye. The local council now uses his most famous creation, a special blast cleaner named Doris, to clean graffiti from public places. John David, Executive member for the environment, said: “Before Doris came along, [...]
Outsourcing Can Minimize Operating Costs
Tennesseean.com: Operating costs include expenses necessary to produce a product or provide a service. That includes salaries and wages, raw material costs, and the cost of any facilities that go directly toward producing the product or providing the service. Bootstrapping operating costs through outsourcing can help owners get to break-even sooner and improve profit margins [...]
