Archive for September 17th, 2007
WRAL.com: Moms have good reasons to join an online mothers’ clubs like TriangleMommies: A wide circle of friends, relief from social isolation and connecting with friends all hours of the day and night – arguably one of the best things to happen since the invention of the stroller. Add to that the perks of meeting [...]
Entrepreneur: When Jennifer Gonzales’ husband, John, gave her an Italian charm bracelet for Valentine’s Day in 2002, Jennifer–a huge Sacramento Kings fan–searched in vain for a Kings charm before deciding to create one herself. Jennifer visited the Team Store at Arco Arena (home of the Kings) to ask about licensing, and a helpful employee called [...]
USA Today: The everyday marshmallow is toast. Replacing it: gourmet, fancy-dancy marshmallows made with everything from caramel swirls to chocolate chips to passion fruit. Even giant Kraft is jumping on board. Earlier this year, it rolled out Jet-Puffed StrawberryMallows — its first flavored entry — and the strawberry version already is outselling plain ones 2-to-1. [...]
RedFerret: The RipRoar Creation Station includes a full resolution camera with a mountable green screen, tripod, integrated software and a bonus content CD. Simply record yourself or your friends in front of the green screen and effortlessly produce your own short movie by replacing the green with any background, cutting and pasting video and images, [...]
downloadsquad: Face it, many of us are overloaded. We’ve got a million things to do, and no time to do them. Taking an hour and shattering it into 5 periods of 10 minutes, with 2 minute breaks between, hence “(10+2)*5″ (yes, we’re math geeks too and we know the “*” is redundant.. but it looks [...]
FortuneWatch: Robin Bal over at the FortuneWatch blog has an interesting story to tell: A man walked into a bank in New York City one day and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Philippines on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The bank [...]
Chauffeur Service Startup Goes ‘Green’
East Valley Tribune: Most people who reach the age of 50 start thinking about how to prepare for retirement. Jim Whiteside was ready to start a whole new career. Whiteside sold his interest in a medical supply company after 30 years in that business and started a chauffeured hybrid-vehicle transportation service in May. Tempe-based EnviroCar [...]
$50,000 For Best Business Idea
Entrepreneur: Starting a new business is never simple. From the technological issues to funding, entrepreneurs face hundreds of potential headaches as they try to get their startups off the ground. Amazon is hoping to alleviate those headaches for one lucky entrepreneur with its “Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge.” The contest is aimed at startups and [...]
