Archive for September 24th, 2007
Couple Takes A Chance, And Succeeds In Paint Business
The Murfreesboro Post: Danny and Rebecca Westergard have never been ones to take things slowly. When it is right, they know. “We don’t like to sit back and say, “What if?” she said. It doesn’t matter if the decision is about their relationship or the business they opened Aug. 1 The Westergards opened Barfield Paint [...]
Two WAHMs Flourish In Sioux City
Sioux City Journal: In a small red room tucked in the basement of her home, Emily Rohan fashions necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and brooches from sterling silver, teal and yellow turquoise, jade, carnelian and a host of other precious stones. On the other side of a black curtain, Lillie, 5, Isabel, 3 1/2, and Sophie, [...]
Entrepreneur Started Biz in College
Inc.: Alex Algard is a true entrepreneur. His companies – WhitePages.com and CarDomain.com – are born from his passions. Both are thriving businesses in Seattle. Both survived the dotcom bust – no small feat! As a Stanford University graduate student, Algard was frustrated by his inability to track down an old friend: he wasted time [...]
Entrepreneur: First, gourmet chocolate was all the rage. Recently, we told you about about gourmet marshmallows. And now, it’s all about premium sodas. The $15.6 billion soda industry is diversifying with beverages like Jones Soda Company’s Blue Bubble Gum Soda, Izze Beverages’ Sparkling Clementine and Cricket Green Tea Cola. Though these specialty sodas may take [...]
Million Dollar Biz: Bear Naked
Entrepreneur: Childhood friends Kelly Flatley and Brendan Synnott were in between jobs in 2002 when Flatley, ever the health nut, began making all-natural granola in her kitchen and enlisted Synnott to help. “The whole food chain [has become] so processed and filled with artificial ingredients,” says Synnott. “[To both of us], it just didn’t make [...]
BusinessWeek: So you’ve created a brilliant new product you know will fly off store shelves. Maybe you’re considering patenting it or building prototypes. But how do you sell it? The business of patenting, promoting, and marketing products by independent inventors is a $300 million industry, estimates Bonnie Griffin Kaake, executive director of the nonprofit United [...]
How Tiny Ideas Can Reach Millions
Guardian Unlimited: Blogger.com helped spark a revolution – and it still makes self-publishing quick and easy. Blogger was launched by Ev Williams of Pyra Labs in 1999, and bought by Google in 2003. Google eventually started to improve it, and a few months ago it finally moved to Google servers. New users can sign in [...]
